A pathologist is a medical doctor with specialized training to study medical conditions using human tissue, blood, pee and other body fluids. They provide essential insight and information to help diagnose and treat conditions, monitor them and provide prognoses. Through research, they can better diagnose diseases of all types.
Pathologists gather information by looking at tissue samples, cells and body fluids under a microscope.
They also perform tests on the samples with machines, such as analyzers for blood tests.
Pathology is the study of the cause of diseases and how diseases affect your body’s tissues on a cellular level.
Blood banking/transfusion medicine pathologist: This expert is responsible for maintaining the blood supply in a medical facility. They make sure blood transfusions are safe and direct the preparation and use of blood components, such as plasma or red blood cells.
Chemical pathologist:
This expert studies the biochemistry of the human body as it applies to understanding the cause and progress of diseases.
Cytopathologist: This expert specializes in diagnosing disease by studying cells. One common example of this is examining the cells of a Pap smear. Cytopathology is typically involved with diagnosing cancer.
Hematopathologist: This expert specializes in diseases that affect blood cells, blood clotting processes, bone marrow and lymph nodes.
Neuropathologist: This expert specializes in diagnosing diseases that affect your nervous system and skeletal muscles.
Pediatric pathologist: This expert makes laboratory diagnoses of conditions that occur during fetal growth, infancy and child development.
Surgical pathologist: This expert studies tissues that surgeons remove during surgery to help diagnose a disease and determine a treatment plan. For example, a surgical pathologist may look at the tissue from a cancerous tumor under a microscope while the surgery is still happening to see if the surgeon needs to remove more surrounding tissue, like lymph nodes.
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