I have been watching this thread (Her 2neu/ FISH) over thepast week with some interest, wondering if anyone else would react to this but no one has. I hope that it is because everyone is distracted with other things and NOT complacent.

No one commented that at this one facility (quoted below) the histotechs perform that method but are NOT asked to read the result.

in an earlier post (source deleted to protect the innocent!) someone wrote
>>> 12/11/01 11:39AM
Our histotechs perform the staining procedure for FISH, but we have a cytotech that is trained to read them along with a pathologist.>>>

it is not typically a cytotech's scope of practice to read out tissues.
 Why aren't histotechs reading out these cases????

comments?


Vinnie Della Speranza
Manager for Anatomic Pathology Services
Medical University of South Carolina
165 Ashley Avenue  Suite 309
Charleston, SC 29425
Ph: 843-792-6353
fax: 843-792-8974