u/FederationOfPlanets

Hi all,

I'm working in a academic center right now where we have one cytopathology service (i.e. one pathologist on each day). We cover everything while we're on service, including ROSE (virtual and infrequent, thankfully)

Our department insists that we're not busy enough to have two separate cyto services, but I don't feel the same... As a general breakdown, here's the case numbers we got last year:

~3000 FNAs
~4000 non-gyns
~10,000 paps

All of our FNAs are smears, sometimes with cell blocks (thyroids range from 2-14 smears...) and we only went to LBC for fluids around mid year last year (smears on body fluids and BALs before that.....)

Am I just slow??