Podcasts

Retirement may be years away, but it's never too early to start planning and saving. Abdul Abid, MD, a member of the New-in-Practice Committee talks with Brian Truscott, a certified financial planner and wealth management advisor who shared his tips on retirement plans, debt repayment, and investment considerations for early career pathologists.

We asked three real-life forensic pathologists to watch "Autopsy Turvy," an episode of the TV show "Psych" (season 6, episode 14), and fact-check the truth from the fiction. Featuring three members of the CAP’s Forensic Pathology Committee, this is the second installment in a series of CAPcasts where pathologists react to how forensic scientists are portrayed in TV and film.

August is Appendix Cancer Awareness Month. In this CAPcast, Mary Edgerton, MD sits down with Katie Hagen, MD to talk about appendiceal carcinomas and how the Cancer Protocols support patient care and treatment when it comes to GI tumors.

In the practice of clinical medicine and clinical pathology, novel technologies often disrupt existing paradigms in diagnostic medicine to improve patient care through more timely and accurate lab results. In his new book, Disruptive Technologies in Clinical Medicine, author Frederick Kiechle, MD, PhD, FCAP, discusses some of these technologies and their impact in practice.

This month we'll look at Senate efforts to strengthen laboratories for future pandemics, the potential burdens of post-market surveillance in AI software, and new digital pathology CPT codes developed by the CAP. Later, we'll hear some highlights from the proposed 2024 Medicare physician fee schedule.

In this CAPcast, Mary Edgerton, MD sits down with Julie Fanburg-Smith, MD to talk about bone and soft tissue tumors and how the Cancer Protocols support patient care and treatment.

The Cancer Protocols help ensure that all pathology reports contain the necessary data elements for optimal patient care. Cancer registries also depend on the protocols for accurate standardized data collection.

In June 2023 the American Medical Association held its annual meeting in Chicago. Physicians across the nation gathered to discuss issues regarding their specialty and the field of medicine as a whole.

Penn State Health pathologist Melissa George, DO, FCAP, and pediatrician Sarah Kesterson, MD, authored the new Clinical Pathology Improvement Program course on this topic. In this CAPcast, they discuss how narrowing the differential diagnosis for poor platelet transfusion response is critical to guide appropriate management and product selection.

We asked three real-life forensic pathologists to watch an episode of the ABC show "Body of Proof" and fact-check the truth from the fiction. Members of the CAP's Forensic Pathology Committee joined us for the first in a series of CAPcasts where pathologists react to how forensic scientists are portrayed in TV and film.

This month, we'll review some of the highlights from the annual AMA meeting in Chicago, look at why the CAP is opposing a name change for cytotechnologists, and more.

Joseph Sirintrapun, MD, FCAP, and Jochen Lennerz, MD, PhD, FCAP discuss implementing digital pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and creating the Pathology Innovation Collaborative Community (PIcc).

Joseph Sirintrapun, MD, FCAP and Sam Terese, president and CEO of Alverno Laboratories, talk about the implementation of digital pathology in an integrated laboratory network.

This month, we'll talk about the CAP's communication with CMS on surprise billing, efforts to pin Medicare pay to the inflation index, and more.

Joseph Sirintrapun, MD, FCAP, and Matthew Hanna, MD, FCAP talk about the implementation of digital pathology at their institution, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Lara Harik, MD, FCAP, a pathologist at Emory University Hospital sits down with Mildred Jones, Certified Tumor Registrar and liaison for the National Cancer Registrars Association for the CAP Cancer Committee to talk about the basics of cancer registries.

This month, we'll look at the FDA's newest proposal on blood donations, as well as plans from the CMS to improve hospital equity.

The EAC is largely responsible for health care policy that affects the coverage, payment, and overall value of pathology services.

Just released, the new Color Atlas of Flow Cytometry offers a full range of hematolymphoid disease cases, highlighting disease categories and disease entities that may be difficult to diagnose in clinical practice. The new book can benefit students, medical technologists, and practicing pathologists, explains lead author, David Dorfman, MD, PhD, FCAP in this CAPcast interview.

This month we’ll examine the White House Budget Proposal and what it means for the pathology workforce and pandemic preparedness, why the CAP and other organizations are calling for Congress to pass an inflation-based fix to Medicare payments, and more.