the, he seems lucid and despite personifying lab equipment, he understands they're not human. He's happy, Tabitha's happy. It's a solitary job, send him to the lab.
My legal name is a weird rare one that's quite close to "Tabitha", so I've been called "Tabitha" a lot of times in my life. Was always very nonplussed about it, but now that I finally have this hero of a microscope as connotation for the name, I'll retroactively embrace the mistake as an honor 😊😆
I just had a biopsy today and my cells are being sent to pathology. It reminded me of your videos. I read an interview with a pathologist and he also said his work life balance is great.
Always good to see one of my top three favorite characters featured: the pathologist! Likely the most well adjusted medical professional in the hospital. Was it Sartre who said "hell is other people"?
Former forensic pathologist here. I worked in the most understaffed and second busiest unit in the province during the opioid epidemic. We had no life - autopsies 6-7 days a week, and paperwork on the "free weekends" and evenings, plus dealing with the politics which was more gross than the most advanced decomp, plus teaching residents and a fellow, plus courts. We looked like a family physician goes to therapy character. My colleague and I went to see our respective family doctors instead of a therapist. Both said, "I think you need another job." lol. Maybe anatomical pathologists have a cushy lifestyle, but I was more stressed out doing forensic pathology than critical care (I have two trainings).
Tabitha is like Jonathan . Arrange worklist , organise patient history and radiology reports , make preliminary reports before every weekly surgery meetings also make coffee , orders food and plays your favourite music list..
IMO radiologists are the most healthy of all medicine. They get paid crazy money, work normal hours, never sees patients, drinks coffee and listen to music during work, and even work from home. It's the tech job of medicine
Do you guys think rural medecine and emergency medecine could a good duo ? They re both underestimated and working constantly with low ressources ! I am sure they would love chiling outdoor with infection disease...or not...
Do hospitals have IT staff? and if so is the IT in hospital same species as IT in corporate? because corpo IT has variety of strange properties that I wonder if hospital IT also has. like Aura that fixes all electronic equipment except for printers. Or ability to diagnose all electronic equipment except for printers. and so on.
this career is perfect for me but med school scares the shit outta me. i’ve always wanted to work in the death scene, and i’ve been taking courses for criminal justice as well. im a very logical and insensitive person and most times it bites me in the ass, lost so many people in my life for being too unemotional which to be honest it was for the best, i love them to much to where if me being out of their life brings them more happiness down the road then so be it (most of moms side of the family cut me off when i didnt cry at her funeral, i loved her so much i loved her in a way only she could understand) so if i cant bring comfort to my own people in my life, i can at least do it for others. to bring the victims families to peace with studying and understanding death, narrowing down how they died or how in a homicide figure out how this specific death happened and hopefully find the culprit. its the least i can do
I had a friend in high school whose dad was a pathologist. I asked him one day how he came into that career. He said "Well medicine was a career change for me. I was working in a job where I was by myself in a basement all day every day and I said 'I don't want to work like this anymore, I want to interact with people, I want to help people, change people's lives. Decided to become a doctor. Finished med school. And then, uhh, I kinda somehow settled into pathology and well, now I work by myself in a basement all day every day..."
I guess he interacted with people, but not in the common way, and I guess he changed people's deaths, which are part of life, and his job probably helps living people as well. But some people just stick to the basement.
Humans can packbond with anything. Now, thinking logically, pathology does need regular stimulation that's not completely on his schedule, and the fact he packbonded to something he uses for work makes me think that, perhaps, he's not got as good a worklife balance as he thinks, but the only thing I'd really advise for him would be to just make sure he regularly tries branching out in his offwork hobbies. Additionally, while our resident psychiatrist seems to have touched a nerve (I mean, don't question a guys packbonds in front of him, it doesn't matter if he anthropomorphized a roomba), it seems like Pathology is aware that he needs to socialize more. He showed up an hour early AND checked to make sure there'd be an empty moment in that time slot.
CLUTCHES PEARLS! Pathology is perfect! Only one more pure is the Pediatrician. If he was my boss, if talking to Tabby keeps him from not being a raging loon, he can keep chit chatting to her. My bar for pleasant bosses in incredibly low. Lol
I'm a trucker loving good equipment is healthy. Makes me sad when management gives Great Equipment to others not assigned to it. And they Wreck it or rip PTO pumps of the transmission Cause they forgot to uncouple the hose.
my husband has been working alone in a diagnostic lab with centrifuges for 12 years. In this past year, he now has a lab with a dozen PhDs grads and undergrads in it. He hasn't quite figured out eye contact yet.
@@ela178 ah thank you. We've been invited to a wedding shower and a baby shower by these very social people and he still doesn't know where to look or what to say.
This is way too accurate. We're just happy lil introverts perfectly content hidden away in the lab until office hours end. We like to teach things that come up in clinician boards but never again for the rest of their career. And live patients exhaust us. Dead ones are quieter.
@@matyldakrupa3775 we have extroverts too! The ones in our department make sure we get a healthy amount of sunlight. They're also the ones who rep us if we want pickles but are too shy to say so haha But kidding aside, we're a friendly and welcoming group!
I was a psychologist and would love to see an interview with the psychiatrist who was my supervisor at the hospital I had an internship at! My interview with him when he interviewed me, I started assessing whether he was using as his eyes dilated and his head seemed swayed, slow speech.. later, I found out he had worked a 24 hour weekend shift and was only in the morning for the morning meeting and my interview! For a Freudian, he was an interesting doctor.!
As a clinical pathologist, I know it’s totally true that we name our lab equipment. Different instruments have their own personalities, that’s for sure. Now, where’s Bert and Ernie…
Heck, they have better labor organization than the hospital employees. Everyone knows that if you yell at the microwave in the break room the chemistry analyzer is required by the Machine Union (partner of the Appliance Alliance) to go on strike.
@@adbreon Oh, Sparky and Chemaine are notorious for their hospital strikes. Can't get popcorn (and the unlikely pairing of metabolic panels) done at all.
Even better, the story of how Pathology and Tabitha first met. It’s not easy to find the right equipment that works for you. But when it does, sparks fly.
“Tabitha is reliable, she listens, I can trust her. Do you know any humans like that?” I was fully expecting Jonathan to come up in that conversation lol
Lab equipment will never betray the trust vested in them (if they don’t suddenly need a repair that is… or a bulb change… or just suddenly stop working because the developers came back from the dead for a quick second to produce a pay-walled software update that somehow is now absolutely necessary after years of perfectly fine work)
I heard from the janitor that Pathology is having an affair with Sarah the centrifuge. Tabitha is going to be broken when she finds out. They're not exactly discreet... Sarah is very loud when he takes her for a spin. I'm losing my grip on reality
Meh, grip on reality is overrated, especially one that's cobbled together as shoddily as the one we're supposed to work with right now . Just wait for a while until somebody comes up with a better one.
My mom is a Pathologist.... and your Dr.Path is on point!!! Hahahaha minus the microscope talk hahaha.. let me tell you Pathologists know all the tea in the hospital!! 🍵 Their lunch convo involves a lot of tea spilling 👀 😳 😄 🤣
The 2022 medscape physician suicidality report had pathology as number one this year for suicidal thoughts. It surprised me. But to be fair I haven’t interacted with a pathologist properly since the lockdown stuff started and I’m sure COVID might have changed some things for them.
The high demand for testing and the hellish confirmation of irreversible COVID damage may have a part of it. But it could also be social exposure too. Especially since a lot of folks have confirmed that pathology really likes to be social to anyone willing to listen and exposure protocol would demand they never interact with anyone anymore.
Suicidal thoughts, not so much. But the GI surgeons schedule 2 7 am tumor boards each week and never quite have time to look at all the pathology the admins have to pull and I have to drive an hour to be ready to present. Other thoughts.... I'm not bitter, but I'm pretty sure that is against the Geneva Conventions.
I love how pathology and the pediatrician have both now stumped the psychiatrist due to their lack of desire to interact with the other doctors for what should be obvious reasons Edit: changed family medicine to pediatrician
Pathology has the right idea! Interacting with Tabitha and the rest of his equipment is better than interacting with most people. Just look at the news.👏👏
I used to work in a retail print shop, specifically with printing and graphic design services. I enjoyed talking to the printers like they had personalities. I still talk to objects, and give things names.
I feel i see myself. I am a lab resident in Hungary. Here lab is a separate specialty, not part of pathology. My favourite part about it is that we don't interact with patients, most of them don't even know we exist and even most doctors have no idea about how a lab works.
I find that so sad. I had medical lab procedures in 1972 and remember how to do a CBC, from collection to staining to counting. I even remember the formula for all the stains. I ended up as a perfusionist back in the day when you really had to know biochemistry, etc, so as not to kill the patient. I really wanted Tropical Medicine but was only on the periphery of that. Thank you for going into medicine. I wish continued success in your field.
The pathologist forgot to mention his love of cutting up dead bodies (autopsies). When I worked as a pathology technician in a teaching hospital, the pathologists and residents all loved doing autopsies. They even had their favorite brand preferences for kitchen knives and power tools. 😳
I have a very dear friend who very nearly went into pathology, and she talked about how in her undergrad she was the only one in her class completely unafraid to come up to dead bodies and work on autopsies. Sounds like she would've fit right in
There’s an episode from Season One of Fringe where Doctor Bishop visits a big box hardware store and asks the nice 19-year-old girl about the best brand of saw for cutting through bone. She is a little nonplussed, and when Peter calls after her “It’s really quite innocent-no need to call the police!” her step away noticeably quickens.
I imagine the fun time Dr. G. and his daughter spent on doing this microscope from a box of cereal. Great video as always! pathologists actually are excited about human beings, when they are the trainees that they can share their love for pathology with.
Haha, my mom is a Histopathologist and she’s nothing like this professionally, but very jolly and positive at home! Hahaaa, I hoped my mother would fit into the GCU but meh, still very funny!
I used to work in a laboratory doing forensic metallurgy and this is spot on. Every piece of equipment had a name and personality. Gina and Jennifer were my favorites.
I’m a current MS1 about to be MS2, and any time we have a pathologist give us a lecture, they’re always probably the most enthusiastic and happy person I encounter that week :D Maybe the stains and fumes make them high on life or something
My best friend in the lab was a Pathology Assistant who worked her ass off. I loved delivering her samples, because it was clear how lonely that job is. Shed go from dictating, to "Hi! Lets talk about life for a second!" instantly. Accurate portrayal as always. Also, I hate micro anatomy so much, so I'm super impressed by paths.
You have successfully convinced me all pathologists have Aspergers and relate better to objects than live people. Since I’m autistic I’ve now determined I need a pathologist acquaintance. I do not get bored when people tell me about their hyper specific special interest in medicine for hours. I’ve memorized the history of pathology & listened to 5 hour lectures on the progression of diseases seen in the skeleton. And I’m not bothered by dead people, so obviously this should work out.
@@chantaldesravines7801 a guy got murdered in the alley outside my old house and I was the second person on site. I walked out to take out the trash and saw a guy laying in the street. I walked up to see if he needed CPR, noticed the blood & that his chest wasn’t moving. I heard from the first person on scene who came running out of his house to say he checked but found no pulse & had called the cops. The guy was obviously already dead. I reacted by turning around, walking back in my house & then I made coffee for detectives & ate a snack while waiting. I was interviewed by cops bc I had heard an odd noise which turned out to be the shot which killed the victim. I was calm at the time and offered the detective coffee while we chatted. They used what I heard to establish time of death. I am extremely practical & I am genuinely not at all bothered by death. It is just a fact of life & there’s nothing I can do about it, so why be upset?
@@meriadocbrandybuck9833 in that regard I'm sure it's helpful, as long as you know how to treat those who can't cope with it that easily. Have you thought about going into pathology or some kind of lab job? Sounds like a good fit for you!
Ok, we are the best and most fun specialty, I can't argue with that. But we deal with surgeons and oncologists on a regular basis. It's not all rainbows. There are only so many times that you can tell the hepatologist that even rush specimens have to be processed and stained and looked at, which is severely hampered by spending time telling them that over the phone, and again in person, and one more time to their Fellow. Also, I'm participating in a study involving ePathology. It's horrible. I feel like I can't see the big picture or the details clearly. Also, it makes me seasick and aggravates the carpal tunnel that I've already had surgery for, and had no residual symptoms until now. You can have Tabitha (or, for me, Carl) when you take it from my cold, dead hands. You are all just jealous! You will never break us up!!!!!!
killing myself laughing - used to work in a hospital lab and ALL our machines had names and were spoken about as if they had personalities! maybe due to it being a long time ago - but every single one of those machines had querks and if you didnt know them, you couldnt get consistent results from them.....
Imagine if the ophthalmologist and pathology fight over who is better- Tabitha or Johnathan, The Seer vs The Scribe And they'll both be attending therapy because of how much they're fighting and the psych is confused at the weird rivalry that developed between ophtha and patho.
