The PathPod Podcast

Beyond the Scope: Dr. Nicola Parry on Veterinary Pathology and Pets

In this segment, Beyond the Scope, we speak to pathologists about their pursuits and interests in and outside of pathology. How is veterinary pathology different from human pathology? What is special about fish kidneys? What's happening with COVID in animals? On this episode of Beyond the Scope, Dr. Sara Jiang (@Sara_Jiang) speaks with Dr. Nicola Parry (@TuftsVetPath), a veterinary pathologist, and Clinical Associate Professor and the head of Pathology at the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.
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IHC Talk: DDIT3 and Mutation Specific IHC

The chromogen siblings talk with Dr. Greg Charville (@Greg_Charville) of Stanford University about his recent publication on DDIT3 as a diagnostic tool for myxoid liposarcoma in The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. Featured public domain music: Alpha Hydrae, Won't see it comin'.

 

 

PathPod Quiz Show: Pandemic Hobbies to Chemistry!

Test your pathology knowledge with our next Quiz Show! Join hosts Dr. Sara Jiang (@Sara_Jiang) and Dr. Christina Arnold (@CArnold_GI) with co-host Dr. Michael Arnold (@MArnold_PedPath) as guests Dr. Raul Gonzalez (@RaulSGonzalezMD), Dr. Swikrity U Bastoka (@SwikrityUMD), and medical student Amber Berumen (@AmberMBerumen) play our games and attempt to win an exclusive PathPod clear ruler! 

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PathPod Presents: MegaPOD!

Presenting MegaPOD! This is a special collaborative episode with other medical and pathology podcasters talking about the podcasting process and sharing ideas. Featuring the hosts of Deeper Levels (@DeeperLevels), Scope MD (@ScopeMDpodcast), Dead Men Do Tell Tales (@deadmendo), Computationally Yours (@compbiopodcast), People of Pathology (@peopleofpath), and PathPod!

Featured public domain music: Gameshow Brazz by John Bartmann

PathPod Stories: PathPod Celebrates Love

In this episode, PathPod celebrates love! In Act I, we will hear two stories about falling in love through the lives of two different sets of lovebirds. Listen as they interview each other and tell us their stories of love during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out which of the lovebirds describes themselves as H&E. In Act II, we will hear stories of thanks from PathPod listeners to their most special teachers. Listen to how their love of learning was sculpted and guided by the support of their favorite teachers. In Act III, we hear the stories of how PathPod listeners fell in love with medicine and pathology. Join us! 

Featured public domain music: Loyalty Freak Music, Dirty shoes blues.

Beyond The Scope: Dr. Eva Wojcik on Getting out of the Basement and Getting into Paris

In this segment, Beyond the Scope, we speak to pathologists about their pursuits and interests outside of pathology. How can pathologists "get out of the basement"? How can getting IN the basement be a good thing? What does being a Chair have to do with camels? How can YOU help shape the next edition of the Paris System? On this episode of Beyond the Scope, Dr. Sara Jiang (@Sara_Jiang) speaks with Dr. Eva_Wojcik (@Eva_Wojcik), Chair of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Loyola University in Chicago, Past President, American Society of Cytopathology, and Founding Chair of the Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytopathology. 
Don't forget to fill out the Paris Survey!
Cover art: Dr. Eva Wojcik. Featured public domain music: US Army Blues, BugaBlue

Beyond The Scope: Dr. Sarah Bean

In this episode of Beyond the Scope, Dr. Sanam Loghavi (@sanamloghavi) of MD Anderson Cancer Center speaks with Dr. Sarah Bean (@DrSMBean) a gynecologic, breast, and cytopathologist at Duke Health about pathology and her interests Beyond the Scope. How did she get interested in woodworking? What are the four phases of a mentoring relationship? What are her tips for work-life integration? What advice does she have for women in academics? Featured public domain music: US Army Blues, BugaBlue

IHC Talk: Managing Laboratory IHC Testing

The chromogen siblings talk with Dr. Anja Roden (@AnjaRodenMD) of Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, and Dr. Frank Ingram (@Chucktowndoc) of Presbyterian Pathology Group in Charlotte, North Carolina, about directing IHC laboratories and managing testing menus. Featured public domain music: Alpha Hydrae, Won't see it comin'.

PathPod Quiz Show: Animals to Medical History

Test your pathology knowledge with our next Quiz Show! Join hosts Dr. Sara Jiang (@Sara_Jiang) and Dr. Christina Arnold (@CArnold_GI) with co-host Dr. Michael Arnold (@MArnold_PedPath) as guests Dr. Anne Herdman, Dr. Sarah Glogowski (@sarah_glogowski), and medical student Adil Menon (@menona1994) play our games and attempt to win an exclusive PathPod clear ruler! 

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PathPod News Edition: How Institutional Racism Negatively Impacts Patient Care and Physician Training

This week, Dr. Meredith Pittman (@merepitt) speaks with Dr. Kevin Simon (@DrKMSimon), a psychiatrist at Boston Children's Hospital, about the role that structural racism plays in everyday encounters between physicians and patients, trainees and educators, and physician colleagues. They discuss the way that COVID-19 has highlighted race-based disparity, and Dr. Simon gives advice for dealing with kids during a pandemic and quarantine. 

Links to articles, essays, and books referenced in the audio:

How to Engage with our Black and Brown patients: 

https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/224419/depression/how-can-we-better-engage-black-men-patients

Myths about Black Patients: 

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/03/30/1516047113.abstract 

Health Disparities for our Black Patients: 

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-racial-disparities-pain-reduction-minority.html

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html

Discrminiation in medical training: 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1915891 and

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768354 and

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/18/racism-doctor-harvard-medicine-training-tafadzwa-muguwe

Discrminiation as an attending: 

https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/16/black-doctors-leaving-faculty-positions-academic-medical-centers/

https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/01/structural-racism-is-why-im-leaving-organized-psychiatry/ 

Implicit Bias:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/making-people-aware-of-their-implicit-biases-doesnt-usually-change-minds-but-heres-what-does-work

https://gender.stanford.edu/news-publications/gender-news/why-does-john-get-stem-job-rather-jennifer

Books:

https://bookshop.org/books/the-protest-psychosis-how-schizophrenia-became-a-black-disease/9780807001271

https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist/9780525509288

 

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