Re: [Histonet] Fee based grossing histotech

2020-07-07 Thread Jay Lundgren via Histonet
I think it's more fair to pay them a share of the professional fee, based on the CPT code of the tissue being grossed. That's basically how a PA working for a group gets paid (although most are salaried), and you are asking a histotech to do a PA's job.

Re: [Histonet] Fixed frozen non-paraffin mouse brain

2020-07-07 Thread Hobbs, Carl via Histonet
Chuckle Thank you, John Kiernan Yes...I appreciate your filling in them gaps. I do understand/know themhaving read, over the years many of the Giants of Histology who gave me such inciteful/usable knowledge, including yourself. I just didn't want to bloat my "pennyworth" otherwise it would be

Re: [Histonet] Fixed frozen non-paraffin mouse brain

2020-07-07 Thread John Kiernan via Histonet
And a very good pennyworth it is, Carl! You wrote, "... someone must've originally thought: 'Hang on, if we fix in commercially bought 40% Formalin, it's got 10% methanol added (to slow rate of formaldehyde repolymerisation) ...that will compete with formaldehyde fixation. So, we get coagulati