I highly doubt many hospitals are looking to bring non-gyn work in-house due to the affordable care act. PATHOLOGISTS sign those out anyways. YOu can have a histotech or other low cost employee go make slides on FNAs. The only thing a cytotech can do is sign out negative pap tests. That is the only real skill the schools gave them and they should be ashamed. More schools should close.
If anything in-office labs (urologists etc) will continue bringing NONGYN testing to THEIR facilities as work migrates out of hospital settings. Guess what, cytotechs arent employed in those places. They have a histotech and some low-cost pathologist, who signs everything out.
The screening devices were about 20 years too late. They wont have much of a shelf life. HOlogic knows it and adapted by buying gen-probe.
Jeez, who are you, because you should know what you are talking about if you are going to sell a service.
FYI Pap is a staining process and a system of classification named for Papanicalou. It does not you the source of the specimen. Cytotechnolgists are NOT histotechnologists. Unlike histotechs who do not diagnose, cytotechnologist do participate in the diagnostic process.
Cytotechnologists are highly skilled laboratory scientists. Who do you think reads the non-gyn FNA's before the pathologist signs them out at LabCorp ????Cytotechs can do the prep work, but most often a technician preps the slides under the supervision of a cytotech. Cyotech's have always read non-gynecological specimens. They are trained in cytology school to prep and read them. In fact, you cannot take or pass the ASCP certification examination unless you have been trained to read non-gynecological specimens.
And yes, the pupose of the Cytotechnologist is to screen out the abnormal cases so that they may be reviewed by the Pathologist. This is a cost-effective time management solution. Only normal gyecological cases may be signed out by the cytotechnologist However, all non-gynecological specimens, whether normal or abnormal must be reviewed and signed out by the pathologist. By the time that abnormal gyn pap or the non-gyn sputum, urine, bladder washing, lymph node aspirate,salivary gland aspirates, Cerebral spinal fluids, thyroid aspirate, breast discharge or fine needle breast aspirate,anal smear, etc arrives on the pathologist's desk, it has been read: suspicious and neoplastic cells dotted, infectious agents dotted and noted, and diagnosed by the cytotechnolgist who has done most of the heavy lifting. I'll wager that you thought the pathologists were doing it all themselves, didn't you? Hater!
There will always be small labs who cut corners to make ends meet but you sound confused. In the first place, a urologist would not hire a cytotech any more than a gynecologist would hire a cytotech. The pathologist hires the cytotech to make his/her life easier, especially when there is a good volume of specimens.
Most of the major hospitals and many small ones employ cytotechs.And in most of these hospitals they spend more time doing non-gynecological screening than reading gyn Paps. Try UCLA, Little Company of Mary, San Pedro Hospital, Cedars Sinai,Kaiser Permanente, Long Beach Memorial, the St John's Hosipals, the VA hospitals,...etc..I could go on.
You sell for LabCorp and you don't know this and you have an attitude too??? OMG!!!
