Lab Medicine Rounds

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., speaks with Robert Michel, editor-in-chief of The Dark Report, an intelligence service and publication that provides economic and strategic assessment of the clinical laboratory industry, to provide useful tools for laboratory management. Timestamps:

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., speaks with Beshoi Nashed, a visiting medical student from the Medical University of the Americas in Saint Kitts and Nevis, about his personal perspective on life that has helped him succeed where many others are challenged. Timestamps:0:00 Intro01:08 Where were you first introduced to this no excuses philosophy perspective, and what is it?03:09 What’s the perspective they had that they really imparted on you, what did it look like? 06:44 What do you think is important for our listeners to understand about, what is it that allows you to be successful with this no excuses approach?10:22 How has your practice changed, if at all, over that time?12:35 Where do you recommend our listeners get their own start?14:22 Outro

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., speaks with Dr. Nour Al-Mozain, a hematopathologist and transfusion medicine consultant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, about the importance of reaching out to colleagues for advice.Timestamps:0:00 Intro01:05 What are a few of the reasons why you have reached out to colleagues for advice?02:36 What are a few of the challenges that you’ve had to navigate while reaching out to try to find this different perspective? 04:39 How do you work on maintaining awareness of where your blind spots are?05:22 Is there something in your training or a point that you can put your finger on to say this set you on the right course to always be mindful of my blind spots?06:38 How are you building this network of colleagues that you can reach out to?07:54 How do you set yourself up for success in getting a helpful answer?10:20 What advice to you have for early career healthcare professionals about asking for advice?12:12 Outro

0:00 Intro01:04 What is your origin story? How did you come to work in this unique health setting of educating patients?05:19 What are some of the common ways that you see healthcare really fail to successfully educate patients?09:59 How do you navigate the complexity of what you’re talking about? 16:12 How do you navigate those situations where the patient doesn’t seem to be understanding the information?18:05 What does the future of patient education look like to you?22:12 Outro

Timestamps0:00 Intro00:45 Why is workforce stability such an important topic for health care right now?04:25 What are a couple of the current challenges? Maybe a few with hiring, and then a few with retaining some of these quality employees.07:17 What are your thoughts about how do you keep your fingers on the pulse of the current needs and interest of the workforce? What’s the way to be a constantly evolving organization?09:04 Is this something that is a regular topic of discussion with management meeting about what we are hearing from our employees, or is this something that is more informal that you’re meeting with leadership for your group, reflecting on what you’re hearing from your employees and meetings? What does that look like?09:23 How does the laboratory and histocompatibility support organ transplantation? What kind of work happens behind the scene that enables this transplant to be as successful as possible?11:32 How do you handle and manage that in a positive way, when employees are making these great suggestions, but like you said you just can’t just on a dime change the work hours in many cases?14:27 What are some of your top recruitment strategies?16:40 How do you assess which strategies are more effective?18:38 Can you speak to some potential educational opportunities where listeners can learn more about this?20:39 Outro

Timestamps:0:00 Introduction0:46 Why is it important for pathologists to know a thing or two about the legal system?3:49 Quality practices are something we are all involved in. Can you unpack those a little bit so listeners can think about how they’re engaging in that?5:05 High probability a physician or pathologist will eventually be involved in a legal proceeding. Tips for if/when that happens to you.7:05 Importance of SOPs and Quality Plans9:19 What does malpractice entail?14:11 What do you recommend for people who want to take more of an active or deliberate role in keeping up with legal practices? 20:32 International Surgical Pathology Symposium 2023 in London21:18 Outro

Timestamps:0:00 Intro01:54 How did you get started in the field of histocompatibility?03:44 Was that a mentor that helped you find this new role and pathway, or was there a particular patient that you took care of that opened your eyes to these other possibilities in lab medicine?05:28 What are a few things that you think healthcare professionals in general should understand about organ transplantation?07:51 Maybe for you, as someone who was practicing first in orthopedic surgery, and then making this transition to systems thinking, what has that been like and how do you navigate that now?09:23 How does the laboratory and histocompatibility support organ transplantation? What kind of work happens behind the scene that enables this transplant to be as successful as possible?11:53 Is the laboratory involved with the care of the transplant patient beyond the acute transplant? What does that look like?13:09 What do you predict is on the horizon for histocompatibility?14:50 How could somebody support organ transplantation?16:47 Outro

Timestamps:0:00 Introduction0:37 Why is it important to update multiple myeloma testing?1:51 Lab testing driving treatment that is being done3:30 Explanation about multiple myeloma, how testing started, and how it has evolved6:02 Needing more sensitivity to detect it7:47 Driving treatment decisions9:02 What does this look like in practice?10:57 Minimal residual disease12:41 Outside of the box thinking, how has this impacted your practice today?17:41 Outro

Timestamps:0:00 Introduction0:40 Non-traditional education for pathologists11:17 Getting involved13:41 Self-learning16:19 Becoming an expert18:46 Other interests in practice or life22:05 Importance of completing projects23:59 Outro 

Timestamps:0:00 Introduction1:18 What is the difference between marijuana, hemp, THC, and CBD?2:58 So, is CBD legal in the United States?4:08 What are the common products you can find CBD in?4:25 How can CBD impact our health? Especially since it is not regulated.5:28 You run our drugs of abuse and forensics lab, is this having any effect on the testing you do there?10:45 For our laboratory medicine colleagues, what's important for them to understand about CBD and marijuana drug testing?13:55 What about different industries? How does it affect athletes in recovery for example?16:50 Are there any other takeaways you want the audience to appreciate from this?18:31 Outro