US Naval Hospital Corps School - Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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CAPTAIN JOHN S. SHAVER, MC Chief, Pathology Service PATHOLOGY ERVICE The Pathology Service provides clinical and anatomical pathologic determinations on inpatients of this hospital and the smaller activities within the Eleventh Naval District which do not have laboratory facilities available, it serves as a Histopathologic Center for the Armed Services Facilities in the Sixth Army Area and Fourth Air Force south of the 36th parallel, it maintains and operates a Blood Bank, it maintains the hospital morgue, and it maintains records and preserves anatomical specimens for use by surgical residents. The Pathology Service conducts conferences and training programs in residency type training in clinical pathology and pathological anatomy, operates a .school for clinical laboratory and blood bank technicg reviews and demon- strates histopathology tissue slides with hospital staff medical officers, holds clinical pathological conferences for hospital staff and medical officers, holds tissue slide demonstrations and conferences for the various residency specialities by civilian consultants in pathology and the pathology staff medical officers. The Laboratory Service is divided into four subdivisions: anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, blood bank and training research. The Anatomic Pathology Branch performs necropsies on all cases where permission is obtained, and prepares com- plete autopsy protocols, which includes a clinical summary, gross description, microscopic descriptions, and a final sum- mary of the case, it performs histopathological examinations on all normal or abnormal tissues which are removed from patients during surgery, and prepares a complete written report giving both gross and microscopic findings and a diagnosis, it performs frozen section studies on submitted tissues for the purpose of rapid histologic diagnosis, it forwards completed pathological reports fgross and micro- scopic findingsl to the medical officer or activity concerned, it provides pathologic material fwet tissues, slides, paraffin tissue blocks and written reportsl of all autopsies and un- usual problem cases to the Armed Forces Institute of Path- ology, for the tumor registry, teaching purposes, consultation and review, and it inoculates Naval personnel fhospital staffj as required. The Clinical Pathology Branch performs routine and special clinical laboratory tests on inpatients and outpatients of this activity and smaller Naval activities within the Eleventh Naval District which do not have laboratory fa- cilities available. These tests include bacteriology, clinical chemistry Cblood and urinel serology, hematology, para- sitology, endocrine studies and exfoliative cytology for can- cer detection. It forwards results of such examinations to activities or medical officers concerned. The Blood Bank collects, processes and stores whole blood for transfusion purposes of patients in this hospital, the Coronado Annex, the Naval Hospital at Oceanside, and the USN Hospital in USS Haven at Long Beach, California. It also prepares typing sera for use by the Bank. The Training and Research Branch provides training of Pathology Residents in Clinical Pathology and Pathologic Anatomy, training of Residents in Surgery, training of Residents in Gynecology and Ubstetrical Pathology, training of interns in clinical and anatomical pathology, it operates a school in laboratory technic, each period of training for each class lasting 14 months and consisting of 2,172 hours of practical training and 228 hours of theoretical lectures, and it provides correlation and assistance with the research studies by medical officers of this activity which have been approved by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

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INDOCTRINATION FOR NEW CORPSMEN FROM HOSPITAL CORPS SCHOOL: Lieut. Comdr. Audrey Elmore. Kiwi will INDOCTRINATION: Lieut. Comdr. Audrey Elmore. if-K 25:5 'N 1, EDUCATION: Ensign Louise Hammond, NCg Ensign Barbara J. HOSPITAL CORPS ASSIGNMENT CENTER: Lieut. Comdr. Lois E Fox, NCg Ensign Carol J. LaPoint, NCg Ensign Kathleen Stelzer, NCg Brown, NCg R. A. S. Finch, HM3. Ensign Barbara Anne Matt, NCg Lieut. Cj.g.J Therese M. Banach, NCg Lieut. Comdr. Audrey Elmore finstructorl. NURSE'S UNIFORMS, OLD AND NEW

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The Pathology Service staff medical officers include a Technic. Chief of Pathology Service, an Assistant Chief, five Resi- The general Scope of the Work in Pathologic Anatomy in- dents in Pathology, plus three Medical Corps Officers. dudes 500 yearly Necropsiesa 107000 yearly Surgical Speci- , dl1.5 lEfl ff. There are also 26 enlisted laboratory technicians, three mens an ' 00 yeary X Olatwe Cytolooles Civil Service technicians, and one enlisted rnortician. There T116 Blood Bank haS 11,400 Yearly ClOH01'S, Hlld CliI1iC3l are 40 enlisted students assigned to the School of Laboratory pathology t6StS in all Categories total 760,000 yearly. CAPTAIN GEORGE E. MEADOR, MC CAPTAIN HARLON W. HARRISON, MC Assistant Chief, Pathology Service Resident PatholOSi5f TALKING IT OVER: James E- Wilson, Jr-, Liam-, MCs John B- SECRETARIESZ Mrs. catherine N. Wolf, Mrs, Margie T. Enoch Adamson, Captain, USAFg Peter D. Van' Peenen, Lieut., MCQ Charles R. Cotham, Lieut. ws. CROSSING TISSUES: Air Force's Captain Adamson. GETTING CLOSE UP: L, E, McHenry, Lieut., MC.