Video 1 Transcript
My favorite aspect of pathology is that the pathologist really is the last true generalist in medicine. If you practice general surgical and cytopathology, as well as clinical pathology, we're able to look at the patient as a whole, make diagnoses or interpret lab tests in order to understand what's going on with the underlying pathology of the patient. In all other clinical aspects of medicine, it seems like medicine is so compartmentalized that if you're an orthopedic surgeon, all you know is bones and joints. If you're an endocrinologist, all you know is diabetes or other endocrine diseases. But with pathology, you can understand both benign and malignant pathologies, as well as their treatments.