Scalpel, Scope, and Stain

This book shines a light on a medical specialty that is often overlooked and illustrates the important place that Anatomical Pathology has within the medical specialty milieu. This book is intended to cater to medical students but should be readily accessible to anyone interested in the inner workings of medicine and pathology. The chapters illustrate the author's journey into pathology and their understanding of this fascinating specialty as it stands at present day. In doing so, it conveys the essential nature of pathology and laboratory medicine as well as diagnostic medicine. Scalpel, Scope, and Stain: A Pathologist's Journey into Diagnostics will inform the next generation of medical students looking towards the future and demystify the workings, challenges, and triumphs of a pathologist’s day-to-day work. This book also contains useful glossary terms, a guide to anatomical pathology subspecialties, common pitfalls and pearls, as well as a list of resources that can serve as a quick reference for residents. Pathology requires a vicarious retelling of real cases, diagnostic dilemmas, problem solving, and their solutions, and the goal of this text is to share experiences with medical students interested in this mysterious specialty.