First Day of Pathology

This was the first "First Day" video. Sorry for the poor quality, I think I filmed this with an iPhone 3.

[DGlaucomflecken]

This is an old one, but one of my personal favorites, so I had to get it on my channel. Thanks for watching!

[kida]

'Have you ever seen a basophil?' - He says that like someone trying to lure med students into a dodgy van.

[Richard.Atkinson]

This is one of the reasons I became a pathologist. They were the only people in med school who treated me like a human and looked like their lives weren’t incredibly miserable. Best choice ever.

[KnightSlasher]

Med students are the children Pathologists always wanted, they sit down and listen without questioning it

[reneephaneuf]

I'm an embalmer and a funeral director, so sometimes I have to go pick up some very Itty bitty miscarriages from the pathology department at our local hospital. One day I asked the pathologist how she could tell what the gender was at such an early stage, because it looked extremely ambiguous to me. She totally forgot about her actual task, and donated 45 minutes of her day to me going over fetal genital development, with charts and diagrams. She was so excited to have someone to share her knowledge with.

[thesrigle]

As a med student can confirm. My Surgery attending dropped me off to the path lab like kindergarten, and the pathologist’s parting words when he came back to pick me up were “we don’t get many visitors down here, come back whenever you want!”

[dragon-like-tendencies]

As a microbiology student, you ain't even fricken wrong. They get very excited about their tiny friends in little spaces. Even if said friends are about as deadly as a charging hippo.

[Zelmel]

I love how Pathology is so friendly that the med student literally doesn't know what is happening.

[COMUEN]

Of course they are in a good mood. They don’t deal with people the whole day.

[jirawhite]

No one recruits harder than a pathologist

[stephaniebaima]

In middle school I was the only student who requested to job shadow a pathologist when we visited the hospital on a field trip. It was one old guy and one young guy, and you could tell they didn't get many visitors. I remember them showing me the computer that they used to record their specimens and that the keyboard had a kind of protective vinyl cover over that was really gross and dirty - it seemed like they were trying to freak me out. But because I didn't have a very grossed out or offended response, apparently I passed the test, because they proceeded to show me their Hall of Fame of specimens.
It included a detached finger with about two feet of tendon trailing from it (from a carpenter who had slid off a roof while wearing his wedding band and gotten it caught) aaand a truly giant dildo made of hard plastic, which had been sawed off at the base. They explained to me that by MA law, anything removed in surgery goes to pathology to be chronicled 😂 Best job shadow day ever and most certainly an experience that led to me pursuing a science degree.

[Paranormalinvestigations]

As a Pathologist, I can confirm this 😂 😂 we don’t care how needy we look, med students are the best.

[JmanFilms]

My uncle was a pathologist. He is just as nice and kind as the one in the video.. Super smart guy, he and his brothers grew a human ear on the back of a rat for a research paper.. he’s also my godfather :)

[VeroSD]

As a wildlife pathologist, I can confirm that 90% of us are like this, regardless of whether we went the med or vet med route.

[Bergen]

This is extremely common pathologist behavior. In my med school, we need to follow a pathologist several times during our rotations. When I came the first time and said to the pathologist I was considering pathology in the future - he actually stopped what he was planning to do with me (just show some slides and sign off my papers) and decided I needed to see more. He gave me a whole tour of the lab and asked several residents to show me even more, which they did very eagerly when they heard about my interests. That day, I actually decided that I want to do pathology. So this is extremely accurate, pathologist love to teach and explain everything they do in detail

[Xenochrome]

Thanks for representing pathologists well. They’re sweet people and caring clinicians who sadly (and wrongly) get the dirty end of the PR stick.

[sn]

Not even a med student, but I can confirm the kindness of pathologists as a patient

[hiddendeath]

That was so cute when the pathologist said, "Do you wanna see a basophil?"
I love it when people get excited to show something like a cell or a dead body

[AznJsn]

Back when Tabitha wasn’t an actual microscope

[gentlemandemon]

Not a doctor, but I worked as a researcher in an university core facility led by a pathologist, and it's 100% accurate. Best boss ever, for real