This? This is why I keep in touch with my pathological past.
From an e-mail, simply titled "The Evolution of Light Microscopy."
1) Galileo, 1609, first compound microscope. Result: Heresy conviction,
imprisonment, later plea bargained for a reduced house arrest. Felony
medicare restriction however.
2) Leeuwenhoek, 1648. Result: Bacteria, Protozoa, Spermatozoa, and
striated muscle striations discovered. Leeuwenhoek Medal legacy established.
3) Single ocular microscopy prevailed until I became a medical student
in the 60's. Result: Unilateral eyestrain.
4) Double ocular, single headed microscope. Result: Bilateral eyestrain.
Ability to point things out to residents, if both were well trained in
musical chairs and constant refocussing.
5) Double headed microscope. Result: No need for musical chairs. Ability
to point things out real-time, but no pointer. Ideal for double headed
residents.
6) Double headed microscope with light pointer. Result: Ability to point
things out real-time. Now something to point with even.
7) Multiple headed microscope with pointers. Result: The birth of the
real-time path conference. Eyestrain now in epidemic proportions.
8) 1990's. Dr. Peter Shireman invents Videomicroscopy. Result: No more
eyestrain. Double glass still present however: The microscope and the slide.
9) 1995. Bacus Labs claims to invent digital microscopy. Result:
Microscopes no longer needed. Slides no longer needed. PC needed.
Internet NOT needed. Bacus sues everybody who infringes on his claims.
Might even take a shot at Google Earth.
10) 2000. Digital Microscopy with remote server. Result: Massive image
files not needed on your hard drive. Dr. Fred Dee at UIowa considered
for Nobel Prize. AOL membership needed however, seen by some as more
repugnant than Galileo's imprisonment.
11) 2004. Digital Microscopy Online. Result: Cable and DSL companies
flourish. Medical students are now able to attend pathology lab naked,
at 3:00 AM, with girlfriend/boyfriend in bed, with a beer.
12) 2005. Digital Microscopy Online with personal trainer, i.e.,
pathologist present. Result: Medical students must now put on their
clothes and come to lab to have somebody show them what they were
looking at while they were naked and drunk and debauched.
13) 2006. Digital Microscopy, filmed, with personal trainer. Result:
Students can go back to beds with their iPods and beer.
14) May, 2007. Digital Microscopy on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=WashingtonDeceit . Histology and
Pathology labs are now wifi. Every pathologist who has felt like nobody
has ever listened to him is transformed into Esmee Denters. Students go
back to bed and beer with their wifi laptops.
Kindly,
John R. Minarcik, MD, whose path and histo videos have now been viewed
as of today, a quarter of a million times, still with a medicare
restriction until 2015.
1) Galileo, 1609, first compound microscope. Result: Heresy conviction,
imprisonment, later plea bargained for a reduced house arrest. Felony
medicare restriction however.
2) Leeuwenhoek, 1648. Result: Bacteria, Protozoa, Spermatozoa, and
striated muscle striations discovered. Leeuwenhoek Medal legacy established.
3) Single ocular microscopy prevailed until I became a medical student
in the 60's. Result: Unilateral eyestrain.
4) Double ocular, single headed microscope. Result: Bilateral eyestrain.
Ability to point things out to residents, if both were well trained in
musical chairs and constant refocussing.
5) Double headed microscope. Result: No need for musical chairs. Ability
to point things out real-time, but no pointer. Ideal for double headed
residents.
6) Double headed microscope with light pointer. Result: Ability to point
things out real-time. Now something to point with even.
7) Multiple headed microscope with pointers. Result: The birth of the
real-time path conference. Eyestrain now in epidemic proportions.
8) 1990's. Dr. Peter Shireman invents Videomicroscopy. Result: No more
eyestrain. Double glass still present however: The microscope and the slide.
9) 1995. Bacus Labs claims to invent digital microscopy. Result:
Microscopes no longer needed. Slides no longer needed. PC needed.
Internet NOT needed. Bacus sues everybody who infringes on his claims.
Might even take a shot at Google Earth.
10) 2000. Digital Microscopy with remote server. Result: Massive image
files not needed on your hard drive. Dr. Fred Dee at UIowa considered
for Nobel Prize. AOL membership needed however, seen by some as more
repugnant than Galileo's imprisonment.
11) 2004. Digital Microscopy Online. Result: Cable and DSL companies
flourish. Medical students are now able to attend pathology lab naked,
at 3:00 AM, with girlfriend/boyfriend in bed, with a beer.
12) 2005. Digital Microscopy Online with personal trainer, i.e.,
pathologist present. Result: Medical students must now put on their
clothes and come to lab to have somebody show them what they were
looking at while they were naked and drunk and debauched.
13) 2006. Digital Microscopy, filmed, with personal trainer. Result:
Students can go back to beds with their iPods and beer.
14) May, 2007. Digital Microscopy on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=WashingtonDeceit . Histology and
Pathology labs are now wifi. Every pathologist who has felt like nobody
has ever listened to him is transformed into Esmee Denters. Students go
back to bed and beer with their wifi laptops.
Kindly,
John R. Minarcik, MD, whose path and histo videos have now been viewed
as of today, a quarter of a million times, still with a medicare
restriction until 2015.