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Saving $1 Million (and Counting) on Blood AcquisitionImproving blood product utilization not only impacts patient outcomes, it can also yield significant cost savings. Listen to this CAPcast interview to learn how my Geisinger colleagues and I led a successful blood product utilization program.

New CAPcast: Paris System: A New Paradigm for Urinary CytologyAn international consortium of cytopathologists, surgical pathologists, and urologists known as the Paris System Working Group has published a standardized system for urine cytology reporting, explains member Dr. Daniel Kurtycz in this interview.

Test Utilization: A Practical ApproachWhen our clinical colleagues order laboratory tests inappropriately, they inadvertently undermine laboratory efficiency, raise health care costs, and invite diagnostic misadventure. However, I believe that the CAP has developed a solution.

How to Avoid Becoming a Rubber Band PathologistEarly in my career, I noticed that I was stretching in and out, back and forth between benign and malignant. A rubber-band pathologist stretches in and out, back and forth between two decision points--here's how to avoid this behavior.

Choosing a Pathology Subspecialty: Forks in the RoadAre you trying to decide on a pathology subspecialty? Here's an exploration of one method: break up each subspecialty into several either/or categories, which will help you rule out a few subspecialties and may even narrow it done to a single option to consider.