“…It does not, for example, convey that we arrive at work to face a queue of cases to diagnose; sit (or, increasingly, stand) before a microscope (soon to be a computer screen in the era of digital slides) for much of the day and correlate what we see on slides with clinical information provided by clinicians or accessible in a patient's electronic medical record (i.e., practice medicine); interact with clinicians (e.g., during frozen sections, during cytologic rapid onsite evaluations, and at tumor boards); and, on occasion, meet to discuss pathologic findings with patients. 3 Thus, although the book's title and contents signal that pathologists are knowledgeable about diseases, ultimately, the text does not tell or show readers that we care for, or about, patients. Students inclined toward careers in biomedical research might consider a pathology residency upon encountering the early "basic science" chapters in Robbins (e.g., those focusing on "the cell" and "inflammation").…”