What Does a Pathologist Do?




The Scope Radio show

Summary: On TV shows like <i>CSI</i>, pathologists are the ones who do the autopsies. But Dr. Jerry Hussong is a clinical pathologist who says the job entails much more than that. He says most of the work pathologists do involves trying to figure out what diseases are affecting living patients. Dr. Tom Miller discusses the pathologist job description with Dr. Hussong, including testing and the amount of quality control involved in a diagnosis.