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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Good, The Bad, and Gary.

Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Jul 20

Starting to wonder if the makers of Narcan have done some kind of underground marketing where they just flood police stations with the perils of fentanyl exposure. What percentage of narcan is used by cops having panic attacks? Can't be a trivial number.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · May 23

One of the greatest truths I have seen in the medical literature is this sentence in Up to Date about urine drug testing. In my experience, most docs understand there are limitations, but not the extent of them.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · May 5

A televised white glove slap would be an amazing TV moment

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · May 1

This is how people talk about AI in medicine too - it's always everyone else's specialty that is most at risk. Never yours.

Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · Apr 30

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans.

It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Apr 26

a man says give me a ping vasili in a dark room

ALT: a man says give me a ping vasili in a dark room

media.tenor.com

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Apr 8

And the second thing is that a lot of early path AI seems/seemed to be focusing on doing what pathologists do in terms of diagnosis. Where it could be more helpful is integrating with record, clinical and other lab info, staging info, checking final reports, artifacts, etc. But not profitable! (yet)

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Apr 8

Yeah, people ask me a lot about digital path, one of my responses is to compare the amount of time it takes to scan, open up on the computer, change magnifications, move around, etc, vs the time it takes to put a slide on my scope and look at it. Both require production of a glass slide at present.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Apr 8

This is a really good and informed article about the state of Pathology AI. Great to read something from a person who has actually made the effort to actually understand what a pathologist does. www.owlposting.com/p/what-happe...

What happened to pathology AI companies?

4k words, 19 minutes reading time

www.owlposting.com

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Mar 12

I have an MD and I can assure you you are doing God's work here.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Mar 12

lol, I got the same exact text at the same time.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Mar 8

They're going to goose or manipulate or selectively present the data so that it looks like there is a correlation. These are unlikely to be legitimate studies.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Mar 3

Living daylights

Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Mar 1

Don't even need a microscope!

Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Feb 25

In #GUPATH we talk about comedo necrosis in high grade prostate cancer being associated with intraductal spread - but not always - this is a lymph node metastasis, so no intraductal spread here!

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Feb 25

Hello - The American Board of Pathology is soliciting nominations for a new trustee - as you can see in the posting there are no specific subspecialty qualifications or desires, we are just looking for someone who would make a good trustee. Please nominate! #pathsky

abpath.org/2025/02/nomi...

ABPath Seeking Nominations for New Trustee

The American Board of Pathology (ABPath) is soliciting nominations to fill a Trustee position, effective January 1, 2026. We are seeking a nominee with demonstrated executive leadership and/or board g...

abpath.org

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Feb 12

It's kind of bizarre because they could come out ahead by stopping all their donations to politicians and political groups and just accepting the higher taxes.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Feb 9

Funny how he's totally ignoring the key word "legitimate" that he put in there himself.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Feb 3

What's to stop him from not imposing the tariffs at all (or removing them without acknowledging it), but claiming they are there anyway? That way he can have it both ways and everybody wins.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Feb 3

Daniel Brühl with three of his like 5 conversational languages.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Jan 30

At least it's not showing mouth pipetting.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Jan 28

I can make it apple green with the right polarization level. IMHO the Congo red staining under light microscopy is the most important anyway.

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Jan 27

Just as long as you don't DEI on impact.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · Jan 24

The RFK Jr. confirmation hearing has been scheduled for 1/29/25. The nomination is on shaky ground.

Here's the call to action: Reach Out To Your Senators and Urge Them To Oppose RFK Jr's nomination to be HHS Secretary

Here's how to do that, step-by-step:

CTA: RFK Jr Nomination Hearing Scheduled - Time To Reach Out To Your Senators | Matthew Cortland

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Matthew Wasco @gleason4plus5.bsky.social · Jan 20

Surprised this didn't go one step further and talk about how "tough love" and harsh treatment actually shows more love than anything the Samaritan did. Because the Samaritan was enabling bad behavior blah blah blah.

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