Mark A. Hurt, MD, Dermatopathologist (WCP Pathology)

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Jyoti Kapil, MD, interviews ASDP Past President Mark Hurt, MD, President & Dermatopathologist at WCP Pathology PC & Laboratories on all things dermatopathology.

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I lectured on The Dysplastic Nevus.  Dermatopathology Then and Now - Have We Travelled?  Companion Meeting.  The American Society of Dermatopathology.  USCAP, March 2, 2014, San Diego, CA.  PowerPoint Download.  PDF of PowerPoint.  SAMs Questions.  References.

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I debated Dr. Alistair Robson on the question of "This house believes that dysplastic melanocytic naevus is a meaningless diagnosis," a position I advocated.  Dr. Robson opposed my position.

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I lectured on inflammatory diseases of the skin at the annual meeting of the Missouri Society of Pathologists at the Renaissance St. Louis Hotel Airport in St. Louis MO.

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I conducted a glass slide seminar at the meeting of the American Society of Dermatopatholgy.  It was titled "Follicular Proliferations:  My cases and yours."

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I was to chair an hour-long session on "Medicolegal Dermatopathology" for the International Society of Dermatopathology at their meeting in New Orleans, LA.  Unfortunately, I could not attend the meeting because of the historic winter storm that resulted in cancelled flights from St. Louis to New Orleans.

 

The issue for this session was judgment of negligence with this specific question to dermatopathologists on the panel who serve as expert witnesses, as follows:

I was to speak on "My Most Extreme Case" at a session of the International Society of Dermatopathology at their meeting in New Orleans, LA.  Unfortunately, I could not attend the meeting because of the historic winter storm.

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I conducted a glass slide seminar at the meeting of the American Society of Dermatopatholgy.  It was titled "Follicular Proliferations:  My cases and yours."

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Selfishness at the microscope:  Your diagnosis or your life.

Read a pdf of the speech:   

 

 

The speech was presented at the National Press Club, Washington, DC.

 

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Of Note from Others

Richard E. Ralston writes, in the Orange County Register, about questions you might want to consider before casting your vote on November 2, 2010.

Richard E. Ralston writes an opinion in the June 17, 2010, Orange County Register on the government's accusation of physician price fixing.  It is the government, not physicians, that fixes prices in medicine.  He tells them to stop.  We should follow his lead.

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