Pathology Report Transcription

Hi, my name is Max and the technical document that I'm going to be going over is going to be on
pathology. On the left of the screen, you'll see that there is where the patient information is going to be,
including their personal information and what the hospital clinic number they are assigned. So that's
going to be that top number that you see. And then below that is going to be the preoperative, post
operative findings which indicate what is being tested for and then what the findings are kind of like a
hypothesis when you're doing an experiment. And then on the right side of the screen, this is kind of the
body of the report itself. It shows all the information that was gathered from the individual pathology
port going over the characteristics of the tissue, which does actually involve quite a bit of more advanced
terminology that most people won't quite understand without prior education and hands on experience
in the field. All right, so the type of people that this document would pertain to is those interested in the
healthcare industry and want to be on the more clinical side of operations. So obviously this is going to
include the medical doctors because they're going to be the ones sending pathology and requesting the
information. Then there's going to be the people who create the pathology reports, and that's going to
be the pathologists themselves. Also, there are going to be the ones who aren't quite to the point of
being in healthcare. So that's going to include your students, and that can be any type of student,
including biology majors and the medical students who are in rotations. And going back to the last slide,
not everyone is going to be able to interpret the document because there needs to be some sort of
previous education to understand the terminology. And that can also be hands-on experience in the
clinics. For the first part of the craft analysis, I'm going to go into the contrast aspect of the document.
And going into the document, there isn't enough that would grab the attention of anyone. This
document is primarily for gathering information that does not need to pop out to the reader. With, there
is not any variation of color, and all the text stays the same color with no included pictures to provide
representations for the content. Now, because this is based off a website, there are plenty of provided
links that are highlighted in blue. When you click on those, they do give description to uncommon
language. There is a great structure through and does follow the common platform of most medical
documents, having good headers with line breaks to show significance. So the next part I'm going to go
into is repetition. And this is only one type of medical document. But since I've seen plenty of different
types of charts for what I'm doing for my job currently, I would say that this does follow basic format.
This is almost always beginning with patient information, where they live, date of birth, gender, age, then
their assigned number that their clinic they're going to is going to give them, following the outlines of
the detailed finding, with an ending where all the interpretations are going to be held. Another part was
that there were clear breaks within the body of the document that gave significance to the different
tissues being sampled, which there were three in this sample. One. The next segment is going to be the
alignment of the document. The text was aligned to the left and there was no indentation, so there was
no using of the tab feature on your keyboard and the text going five spaces to the right. And then there
were no images within the document, so there was plenty of white space to make the larger headers
appear more significant for the following body text that was going to be underneath it. So the next
section is going to be proximity and as described before in repetition, this document does have a
beginning, a middle end and an end. The beginning has all the patient information, gives the requesting
physician's name and their concern for the tissue sample. Following is going to be the body of the text
where there's going to be the findings for the different samples taken, including where on the body it
was taken from, and the size of it flowing to the next section where a full description of the cancer was
going to be found. And then at the end there's going to be the name of the pathologist with the
interpretations, which is going to just be a short summary. Wrap up the technical document analysis.
Overall, this is a good document for the audience. It is to attract. It's not for your technical everyday
reader, but for the ones who are looking for information to diagnose a patient. So pretty much any
provider. The other side of this is going to be for students who need practice at understanding the
contents of a pathology report. It was never meant to be something fun to read or grab the attention of
readers, but the document does have a good layout for those who need to grab information. It's not
confusing and it does flow well from beginning to end and does not lead to any confusion. Thank you for
listening. Bye.