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June 2018

Frontline dispatches from the burnout battle

June 2018—Bryan Bohman, MD, doesn’t spend his days wandering the Bay Area handing out buttons that read “Lift people, not the bottom line.” But don’t rule this out as a possibility someday, either. Dr. Bohman, chief medical officer, University Healthcare Alliance, and clinical professor of anesthesiology and perioperative and pain medicine, Stanford Health Care, is campaigning against physician burnout. Yes, it threatens the quality of medical care, he says, and yes, it’s expensive.

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Q&A column

June 2018—What is the role of total testosterone and free testosterone in gauging the effectiveness of androgen deprivation therapy?

We are planning to validate the mismatch repair panel in our immunohistochemistry laboratory. Do we use the CAP guidelines for antibody validation for a nonpredictive marker or a predictive marker?

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Newsbytes

June 2018—Electronic device shows promise for identifying pathology specimens: While barcodes and radio-frequency identification are considered the workhorses of pathology specimen identification, a new technology, nearly two decades in the making, may soon get a piece of the action.

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Put It on the Board

June 2018—FDA clears T2Bacteria panel for detecting sepsis-causing pathogens: T2 Biosystems received market clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for the T2Bacteria panel for the direct detection of bacterial species in human whole blood specimens from patients with suspected bloodstream infections.

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Letters

June 2018—LCIS variants and DCIS: We write in response to the article by Karen Lusky regarding tips to distinguish DCIS from variant forms of LCIS (April 2018). A different question might be: Is it actually important to distinguish these two in situ proliferations?

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