1 March 2014: Record traffic again

In February 2014, we again had record traffic, with a daily average of 18,323 visits, surpassing the prior record of 17,502 visits per day in October 2013.  The total traffic for February was 513,060 visits, less than the 542,590 visits in October 2013, which had 3 more days in the month.  In February 2014, we had 1.5 million page views, which is a lot but our usual number over the past 5 months.  The record was actually 1.7 million page views in December 2013.  Thanks for your support, and we welcome your suggestions on how to make PathologyOutlines.com even more useful to the Pathology community.

28 February 2014: Thanks to these image contributors

Thanks to the following image contributors to these topics:

Nephropath contributed numerous images, posted to these topics in the Kidney-nontumor chapter:  amyloidosis, diabetic glomerulosclerosis, focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis, IgA nephropathy, light chain deposition disease, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, membranous glomerulonephritis, minimal change glomerulopathy, myeloma, post-infectious glomerulonephritis, rapidly progressive (crescentic) glomerulonephritis, SLE / systemic lupus erythematosis, thin glomerular basement membrane disease / lesion, tubular disease - general

Junaid Baqai, MD: Lung nontumor - Coccidioides immitis

Wafaey Fahmy Badawy Mohamed, MD: Thyroid - Follicular carcinoma

Angel Fernandez-Flores, MD, PhD: Skin Nonmelanocytic tumor - Sebaceous hyperplasia

Marino Leon, MD: Nasal cavity - Nonkeratinizing nasopharyngeal carcinoma - undifferentiated

Semir Vranic, MD: Bone - Ewing sarcoma

28 February 2014: How to Be a Lab Director

Dr. Philip Dauterman has kindly given us permission to post his book, How to Be a Lab Director, on our Laboratory Administration page.  You can download the PDF file  (13.5 MB, 146 pages) for no charge on that page or by clicking here.  You can also buy the book for a modest price through Amazon.com by clicking here.  He appreciates any comments at drp_dauterman@yahoo.com.

28 February 2014: The Health Insurance Marketplace and What The Health Exchange Plans Mean for Your Practice

We have posted a new article on our Management page:

The Health Insurance Marketplace and What The Health Exchange Plans Mean for Your Practice, by Ann Lambrix and Mick Raich, Vachette Practice Management / Stark Medical Auditing, posted 28 February 2014
The new Insurance Exchange is up and running, and many practices are wondering how this will affect their bottom line. There are several issues to review when thinking about these Exchanges. In the past, many practices have remained out-of-network with carriers that have lower reimbursement rates due to the ability to obtain higher out-of-network payments. Unfortunately, this will not be the case with the Exchange Plans. Rest of article

28 February 2014: 4000 + Done + USCAP

Thanks to Baylor College of Medicine (who posted ad #4000) and the 3999 other advertisers since PathologyOutlines.com started in August 2001.  For many years, pathologists were very skeptical about our website - how could it possibly be free?  By now, most pathologists recognize that it is, in fact, a free no registration website, paid for by advertising of pathology related jobs, conferences and fellowships.  We also have advertising on our Home page, Management page, Buyer's Guide, Case of the Week and other emails.  We also have an affiliate relationship with Amazon, meaning that they pay us ~ 5% of the purchase price of anything bought on Amazon.com, if you enter Amazon through our website (by clicking on a link or banner).  We also promote books of various publishers, and receive money when visitors click on Google ads.  We do NOT allow popup ads, or other obnoxious ads.  The free website model has worked very well for us, and we plan to continue.

We have (finally) converted all 6700+ topics on our website to topic format, with completion of the Eye chapter.  The next big task is converting to a template based system that will also adapt to tablets and smart phones.  This is (still) under development, but we hope to get it started soon.

Look for us at USCAP, booth #324.  We have a new survey, seeking to know your favorite pathology related books.  We will publish the results after the conference.  We are thinking of having an optional Membership in PathologyOutlines.com.  This will help us with our expansion plans.  Members will get a discount on advertising, and their names will be posted on the website.  Perhaps there can be some other benefits.  What do you think?

26 February 2014: Authors needed

We are looking for authors for these existing chapters: Clinical Chemistry and CNS nontumor, and for new chapters on Heart-nontumor, Informatics, Muscle Pathology, Quality Control (CP), Pediatric Pathology and Syndromes. Authors first provide us an outline of what they want to write, then start with a topic or two. You don't have to complete the entire chapter. If interested, contact Dr. Pernick at NatPernick@hotmail.com.

25 February 2014: Promotions Email, Pathologist vs. Surgeon

Before the USCAP and CAP/ASCP conferences, we usually send an email listing various promotions that may be helpful to Pathologists.  Click here for the latest promotions email.

Surgery vs. Pathology video: