9th January
My first day at the pathological institute was on Monday, the 9th of January. Lena Stang, my supervisor during my time there, told me to arrive at 8 o’ clock in the morning at the main laboratory. My way to the Pathological institute was quite long as I stayed in Weinheim, with around 50 minutes of taking the tram. Because of that I had to wake up at 6’o clock in the morning so that I would be there at quarter to 8 o’ clock. When I arrived, I was led by a worker to Lena as I had difficulties to find my needed location in that huge building. I found her at the right time and we introduced ourselves to each other so that right after that she could show me around the main laboratory. For the first couple of hours I could watch doctors …show more content…
They inquired me about what I already knew about certain things, explained many things in detail to me and let me touch real tumours as well as letting me guess what the symptoms were. The cutting section is like a first step to fasten preparations and biopsies so that doctors can watch it under a microscope and make a diagnosis. The second step would be the fastening in wax with the result that a smooth and – and this is the most important aspect - a thin cut can be made which is beneficial when you want to see the cell structures properly and very detailed. To see the cells in such a way a colouring must be made. For that, there are some machines which kind of “dip” the finished microscope slides into different concentrations of alcohol, different colourings, water and a concentration called xylol. This process provides a good differentiation between the nucleus which will be blue coloured and the cell plasma which will be red coloured. The whole process including the cutting, fastening and colouring takes about 5 days. What is really interesting is that a finished slide can be held for about 30 years without losing its …show more content…
My day would begin at 8 o’clock so I had wake up at 6 o’clock and go there by bus and train which took about 45 minutes. As I know the people who work there since I moved from Russia to Germany there was a nice and familiar atmosphere around us so that I felt quite comfortable there. And even though I know most of that place I got a small introduction about that surgery as well as my jobs I would have to do during my time there. I started to follow around a doctor’s assistant who ended up being my kind of supervisor. She showed me how their computer system works and how to prepare needles, pack blood preparations, register patients and how to disinfect every single room to ensure safe care and treatment to the patients. She explained me how to register patients and their diagnoses into the main computer. After that introduction, I got the chance to walk around with the doctor and watch her during the process of resolving a diagnosis and sometimes even treat them. Most of the cases were simple colds or similar so that there has never been something extraordinary or specifically interesting while watching the doctor. After watching the doctor’s work, I worked more autonomously and did my tasks for the day which resulted to be very stiff and jejune to me. The most interesting part was to read all those different diagnoses from different patients while working with the computer so that I got a good
My first day at the pathological institute was on Monday, the 9th of January. Lena Stang, my supervisor during my time there, told me to arrive at 8 o’ clock in the morning at the main laboratory. My way to the Pathological institute was quite long as I stayed in Weinheim, with around 50 minutes of taking the tram. Because of that I had to wake up at 6’o clock in the morning so that I would be there at quarter to 8 o’ clock. When I arrived, I was led by a worker to Lena as I had difficulties to find my needed location in that huge building. I found her at the right time and we introduced ourselves to each other so that right after that she could show me around the main laboratory. For the first couple of hours I could watch doctors …show more content…
They inquired me about what I already knew about certain things, explained many things in detail to me and let me touch real tumours as well as letting me guess what the symptoms were. The cutting section is like a first step to fasten preparations and biopsies so that doctors can watch it under a microscope and make a diagnosis. The second step would be the fastening in wax with the result that a smooth and – and this is the most important aspect - a thin cut can be made which is beneficial when you want to see the cell structures properly and very detailed. To see the cells in such a way a colouring must be made. For that, there are some machines which kind of “dip” the finished microscope slides into different concentrations of alcohol, different colourings, water and a concentration called xylol. This process provides a good differentiation between the nucleus which will be blue coloured and the cell plasma which will be red coloured. The whole process including the cutting, fastening and colouring takes about 5 days. What is really interesting is that a finished slide can be held for about 30 years without losing its …show more content…
My day would begin at 8 o’clock so I had wake up at 6 o’clock and go there by bus and train which took about 45 minutes. As I know the people who work there since I moved from Russia to Germany there was a nice and familiar atmosphere around us so that I felt quite comfortable there. And even though I know most of that place I got a small introduction about that surgery as well as my jobs I would have to do during my time there. I started to follow around a doctor’s assistant who ended up being my kind of supervisor. She showed me how their computer system works and how to prepare needles, pack blood preparations, register patients and how to disinfect every single room to ensure safe care and treatment to the patients. She explained me how to register patients and their diagnoses into the main computer. After that introduction, I got the chance to walk around with the doctor and watch her during the process of resolving a diagnosis and sometimes even treat them. Most of the cases were simple colds or similar so that there has never been something extraordinary or specifically interesting while watching the doctor. After watching the doctor’s work, I worked more autonomously and did my tasks for the day which resulted to be very stiff and jejune to me. The most interesting part was to read all those different diagnoses from different patients while working with the computer so that I got a good