Transcript How grossing affects our lives as residents

How grossing affects our lives as
residents
MJ Cardin
B Xu
P Fiset
Gross description
• Specimen received fresh (we hope) from
Second Cup
• Labeled as almond cookie
• Unoriented
Gross description
• Specimen consists of a breast-like baked good
with depressed nipple-like cherry filling
• It was not weighed or measured (did not want
to put food in the lab)
• It was not inked (although dipping in coffee
would have been good)
Specimen was serially
sectioned…
using the breast dissection JGH
technique
Gross description
• Specimen was submitted in toto for gastric
processing in three residents labelled MJC, PF
and BX
• It was soft, chewy, pink, round and almond
flavoured
• Gross description only
Diagnosis
• Cookie, Second Cup purchase:
– Almond flavoured breast-like cookie
– Very yummy