TAT and How You Can Change It

TAT means ‘Turn Around Time’. For most of my career in the histology lab I never heard this acronym. Sometime in the 2000s it began to turn up in lab meetings. They said our TAT blah blah this or blah blah that and it was usually bad but why? We learned the lab should have……

Goodbye 2018. Hello 2019, From the Lab

(This is an older post, as the title shows. I found it relevant even after the years between. Please see my previous post if you are curious why this is showing up now.) I left 2017 with good tidings. The lab hadn’t lost anything in a while. The Boy Man had been doing his job……

Old Drafts that May Amuse

I’ve not posted on A Slice of You in several years. I’d want to share why and then begin posting old posts I had started back in 2018 but never published. I think I had a good reason to stop posting. My daughter and I write the Quirni Series. As the series became better known……

A Lab Moves

Just like anyone moving from one place to another, be that a house or a desk, a job or even transferring information from an old computer to new, it’s messy, isn’t it? Things get misplaced. Sometimes a thing will end up in an odd box and cannot be found. Good planning avoids most of this.……