All In A Day’s Work: The Crucial Work Of The Medical Pathologist

By Joseph Cooper,

Richard Ives

Published June 16, 2015 at 1:00 PM EDT

Here’s a paraffin-embedded block of tissue being sliced by one of our technicians with an instrument called a microtome. The 3-4 micron slices are floated in a water bath and then put on a glass slide for staining.";

06/16/15 - On Tuesday’s Topical Currentswe continue our ongoing series, “All In a Day’s Work.”

Sample glass slide of stained tissue ready to be examined by a pathologist. A circle has been placed around the area of interest.

We’ll learn about the crucial work of the medical pathologist, with two experienced ones: HadiYazijiand EnmaSaiz.The pathologist is unknown to patients, but is considered the “doctor’s doctor,” who provides essential patient data and insight. That’s Topical Currents. . . Tuesday at 1pm.

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Joseph Cooper

WLRN Radio's Joseph Cooper says producing and hosting Topical Currents is the most rewarding experience of his long radio career, which began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the 1970s.

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Richard Ives

Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.

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