The PathPod Podcast

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. 
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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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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.

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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.

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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