I'd like to welcome pathologist Gregory Henderson to the blogosphere; his new blog is called The Primary Care Pathologist. In his first post he describes The Primary Care Pathologist's DNA, and in a follow up post he wonders if You Might Be a Primary Care Pathologist:
- If you have ever taken phone calls from patients to help explain their diagnosis, you might be a primary care pathologist.
- If you have ever scrubbed into a surgical procedure to help the surgeon identify key areas to sample for frozen section, you might be a primary care pathologist.
- If you have ever manned a booth at a community health fair that educates women about Pap and HPV testing, you might be a primary care pathologist.
- If you have spent an enormous time over the past 3 months helping your hospital prepare for the impending H1N1 epidemic, you might be a primary care pathologist.
- If you look around your lunch table most days and see physicians of other specialties and no other pathologists, you might be a primary care pathologist.
- If your pattern of practice looks anything like any of the pathologists on this CAP website, you might be a primary care pathologist.
- And finally, if you have ever gotten a card like I got this week from the parents of a stillborn 10 week fetus that said: “Dear Dr. Henderson, thank you for doing all the testing on our son and finding out his gender for us – your help was greatly appreciated” – you might indeed be a primary care pathologist.
- And indeed you might get a little choked up and be damned proud that you are.
In addition to being a Primary Care Pathologist, I think he is a natural born blogger; great stuff. Subscribed!

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