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New pathology patient consult program takes off

July 2017—Ten weeks in, 10 patients seen. The pathology patient consult program at Lowell General Hospital is already giving a boost to pathology’s visibility and patients a better understanding of their disease. Lija Joseph, MD, chief of pathology and medical director of pathology and laboratory medicine at Lowell General Hospital in Lowell, Mass., says a colleague’s presentation about social media and medicine led her to launch the patient pathology consult program in March.

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Introducing patients to their pathology reports

January 2014—Meaningful use standards are fostering increasing patient access to medical records, including pathology reports. Yet pathology reports can be challenging even for clinicians, much less for patients, to understand. Nonetheless, it is typically left to the treating non-pathologist clinician to explain the findings to the patient, even when the clinician lacks detailed knowledge of pathologic features.

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