Assuming he works a typical 200 days a year, and 8 hour days, that would mean that he would examine 25 each hour, or less than two and a half minutes examining each biopsy.
I hope that he was not the one who made my life or death decision about my cancer biopsy.
And we are supposed to believe this stuff.
I remember seeing a medical show a few years back that showed biopsies being done by a technician.
They took about 30 seconds each to scan a slide to look for abnormalities......................
It was for Breast Cancers..............
Assuming he works a typical 200 days a year, and 8 hour days, that would mean that he would examine 25 each hour, or less than two and a half minutes examining each biopsy.
I hope that he was not the one who made my life or death decision about my cancer biopsy.
He has a fairly large lab.
Way to attempt to distract from the article and Dr Cole’s findings, troll.
More about Dr Ryan Cole….who I trust more than a random, drive by FReeper’s snark post. ….
… Dr. Ryan N. Cole received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was president of the student family practice association and a research associate in an immunology lab.
He then spent 5 years in training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, completing his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, as well as a fellowship in Surgical pathology, serving as chief fellow in his final year.
Following this, he was accepted to a fellowship in dermatopathology, under the world expert in the field, Dr. A. Bernard Ackerman, at the Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology, in conjunction with the Columbia School of Medicine, in New York City, where he was again chief fellow.
In 2004 he founded Cole Diagnostics, an independent, full-service medical laboratory in Boise, Idaho, and is the Chief Medical Officer and Laboratory Director.
He is a board certified Anatomic and Clinical pathologist with a subspecialty training and 20 years experience in dermatopathology and particular interest in molecular diagnostics. Dr. Cole is licensed in states from coast to coast, and serves patients and clinicians across the country by providing accurate and timely diagnoses.
Cole Diagnostics processes and reports out approximately 40,000 blood and biopsy patient samples annually. In the last year, the lab has handled over 100,000 COVID testing samples.
“...that would mean that he would examine 25 each hour, or less than two and a half minutes examining each biopsy ... I hope that he was not the one who made my life or death decision about my cancer biopsy.”
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If there was any doubt on the part of the pathologist who read the slide/s (or the doctor who received the diagnosis from the lab) a second opinion is very easy to request and obtain.
If a diagnosis takes a minute that would be close to normal. And then dictating the report is very quick as they have shorthand codes and other technology to speed things along.
I worked on the finance side of a very large pathology practice. Pathologists like to look at slides. They are very used to it. A normal workload of 200 CASES a day is not unusual. A case can have more than a single slide.
It doesn’t take long to see what is out of whack once you have the training.
Have you ever watched a radiologist view X-rays and other images? They see stuff faster than you can say, “I wonder what is right/wrong with this person.”
What is your training and experience (professional experience, aside from receiving a CA Dx) that qualifies you to make your remarks/comments?