The PathPod Podcast

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! 

Featured public domain music by The U.S. Army Blues 

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

 

Featured public domain music: Loyalty Freak Music, I'M ON FIRE

PathPod Quiz Show: Fruits and Comparative Pathology!

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. Suzy Dintzis (@SuzyDintzis), Dr. Lisa Zhang (@MLisaZhang), and future pathologist Dr. Philip Hurst (@pathophil) play our games and attempt to win an exclusive PathPod clear ruler! Featured public domain music by The U.S. Army Blues 

PathPod News Edition: Forensic Pathology During COVID-19

On this week's episode, Dr. Meredith Pittman (@merepitt) talks with Dr. Nicole Jackson (@NicoleJacksonMD) of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office in Illinois and Dr. Rebecca Asch-Kendrick of the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Minnesota about what they do day-to-day and how COVID-19 and the opioid epidemic have impacted their practices. They also discuss terminology that has been in the lay press recently, including the cause and manner of death, homicide versus murder, and first and second autopsies.

Featured public domain music: Loyalty Freak Music, I'M ON FIRE

PathPod Quiz Show: Comic Books to Anatomy!

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. Kamran Mirza (@Kmirza), Dr. Michael Williams (@bluehatcomics85), and Cullen Lilley (@cullen_lilley), incoming M2 and co-founder of PathElective.com, play our games and attempt to win a limited edition PathPod clear ruler! Featured public domain music by The U.S. Army Blues 

Path Pod News Edition: Pandemic, Protests, and Wellness

In this episode of Path Pod News Edition, Dr. Meredith Pittman (@merepitt) talks with Dr. Carla Ellis (@theglasspusher) of Northwestern Medical Group about her role as the Director of Wellness, Diversity, and Inclusion as we live through a time of societal unrest. Dr. Ellis shares some of her tips for dealing with mental stressors, and we discuss the implications of racial inequities in medicine and beyond. The Chicago Tribune photograph referenced by Dr. Ellis can be found here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-viz-white-coats-black-lives-photos-20200605-hz3ypvhar5hwnm6wquxwgvfeim-photogallery.html.

Featured public domain music: Loyalty Freak Music, I'M ON FIRE

Beyond the Scope: Cory Nash, Pathologists' Assistant

In this episode of Beyond the Scope, Dr. Kamran Mirza (@KMirza) talks to Cory Nash (@iplaywithorgans), a Pathologists' Assistant at University of Chicago Medicine and the famous handle behind #GPOW (gross photo of the week) about how social media is changing the face of our field, his experience with training residents, how COVID19 has impacted the autopsy protocol and whether TikTok is the next big thing for pathology and laboratory medicine! Featured public domain music: US Army Blues, BugaBlue

PathPod Stories: Happy Father's Day

In this episode, we celebrate Father’s Day with stories from pathologists and their Fathers. Dr. Kalisha Hill (@kalishahillmd), Chief Medical Officer at AMITA Health St. Mary's Hospital in Illinois, shares a conversation with her father Dr. Kim Williams, Chair of Cardiology at Rush University in Chicago. Dr. Celestine Trinidad (@celestrinmd), a pathologist in Metro Manila, Philippines shares how her father inspired her to go into medicine, and how the path veered from surgery to pathology. Dr. Michael Arnold (@MArnold_PedPath), Medical Director of Anatomic Pathology at Children’s Hospital of Colorado talks about his experiences as a father with his daughter Madelyn. Dr. Leilani Valdes(@LeilaniCLV), medical director for Regional Pathology Associates in Victoria, TX, shares her love of her father and the life lessons he imparted.

In between Our Father’s Day tribute, we will have trainees share how they became interested in pathology. We hear from Dr. Anas Saad (@AnasSaad94), a Research Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Ohio, and Dr. Greta Evaristo (@gtevaristomd), 3rd year AP resident from McGill University, Montreal.

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