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The 100-Year Anniversary of the Description of the Frozen Section Procedure
Anthony A. Gal, MD;
Philip T. Cagle, MD
JAMA. 2005;294:3135-3137.
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In contemporary society, the pathologist is largely unknown or poorly understood. Accordingly, few lay persons, whether healthy or ill, have direct professional interaction with pathologists.1 If a poll of the lay public were undertaken, many would respond that the pathologist is "not a physician," "the keeper of the dead," or "the person who performs the autopsy." Certainly, the portrayal of the pathologist in printed press, cinema, and television, notably in the popular Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) television series, is frequently a distortion of reality.2
While autopsies represent a small and ever-diminishing part of medical practice, most contemporary pathologists are actively and directly involved in rendering care to the living patient through the various facets of the modern clinical laboratory. One of the most crucial tasks of the pathologist is the performance and interpretation of the frozen section or intraoperative consultation . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Author Affiliations: Dr Gal is Associate Editor and Dr Cagle is Editor-in-Chief, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Northfield, Ill.
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