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[theoddvet]

[lizziedoesvetpath]

Obsessed with respiratory epithelium. Look at all those cilia. Waving around, pushing microbes and other foreign material away from the lungs. The best 🫁🫁🫁

[lucky-fy]

He’s a little scary, but he’s got the spirit

[a-jar-of-paper-stars]

long time, no see

Wow, I haven't been on tumblr in a very long time. Fourth year really ate up all of my energy and I have neglected a lot of things in my life that make me a little bit more sane.

I started my pathology residency about a month ago and it so far is going well! Since pathology is a reading-driven specialty, I find my brain wandering off. The last time this happened to me, I was struggling to study for the MCAT, which brought me back to tumblr.

So hi. My name is Liz. I am a PGY-1 resident in pathology. I love to mentor other students so please feel free to ask me anything! I post a lot on my medstagram account @lizzy.study but my longer posts are always reserved for tumblr.

Right now, I really need to read this surgpath book.

[vetisntdead]

"If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck..."

"Yeah, but the fuck up is, that is not a duck."

[lizziedoesvetpath]

Mine too

She’s a better pathologist than me

[uptomyeyebrows]

Sometimes they die

I know it's not the same as families, or front line folks, but we know those patients too.

I wrote your name 15 times the first time we saw you, making the training set of films, hoping you'd get treatment and get better.

We kept an eye out for you, memorized your cells, looked at your file with a certain fondness.

You were gone for a while. Getting better? At the children's hospital? Home on hospice?

But you came back, and it looked worse. Trending down. On call doctor not even surprised at your critical results.

And then the samples stop. Maybe the doctors tell us you're gone, maybe they don't and we keep wondering.

All we knew of you was some blood in a tube, but it still breaks my heart to know that you've gone for real.

[theoddvet]

Time for another appreciation post for sarcomas because I came across a mother of one the other day:

1 - a relatively normal cancer cell with a prominent nucleolus (dark dot in the middle of the slightly lighter oval)

2 - a cancer cell showing an increased cell size and a large nucleolus

3 - a cancer cell who decided to become a beast with significant karyomegaly and a huge nucleolus

1 - a relatively normal cancer cell

2 - a super large beast with four nucleoli

1 - a normal sized cancer cell

2 - a cancer cell with two large nuclei of varying sizes (so a binucleated cell with karyomegaly)

3 - a cancer cell with karyomegaly and a large nucleolus

4 - me on an average monday

[lizziedoesvetpath]

Squamous epithelium, intestinal epithelium, respiratory epithelium, fat, cartilage, bone... All in one tumor

It's everyone's favorite game of pathology bingo - TERATOMA!

[vetisntdead]

When you get brand new slides from the lab and the fumes from the cover slip glue hits you right in the nose

[lucky-fy]

You are right

He’s a little scary, but he’s got the spirit

[uptomyeyebrows]

Reviving the blog!

I know that no one is on Tumblr any more, but I've got random stories and gripes from my work that maybe I could share (v. Deidentified of course).

So I'm moving from a shitty studyblr to a shitty jobblr/scienceblr/haemblr/pathblr (is -blr still the right thing to use? It's been 5 years y'all)

So, yeah, hello again!

[theoddvet]

Nothing like a good case of ringworm to make you aware of literally every itchy part on your body

[lizziedoesvetpath]

Multinucleated Giant Cell Appreciation Post

[pathologybrainiac]

Darth Vader helps us to remember all complications of myocardial infarction!

D-Death

A-Aneurysm of the cardiac ventricle

R-Rupture (free ventricular wall, septum or papillary muscles)

T-Tamponade

H-Heart failure

V-Valve disease

A-Arrhythmia

D-Dressler’s syndrome

E-Embolism (mural thrombus)

R-Regurgitation (mitral valve)

[vetisntdead]

Sample history: is this the same tumor as was excised 4 years ago or is this a new one? We don't have the lab report from the previous tumor and you don't either cus we didn't send it to you

Okay so how must I know