Why isn’t my tissue request finished by the anticipated completion date?
The dates we provide as anticipated dates of completion are based on a normal workload in a normal week. However, since a major function of the Neuropathology/Histochemistry Core is to provide human tissue through our Brain and Tissue Bank, we are continually adding to the bank through our ongoing autopsy program. By nature, autopsies are unpredictable, and every time there is an autopsy, the staff of the Neuropathology/Histochemistry Core has to interrupt whatever they are working on in order to do the autopsy. Most weeks, we have no more than one or two autopsies. Occasionally, though, we will have several autopsies in a single week. This wreaks havoc with the normal flow of work, delaying completion of all projects planned for that week, and may impact subsequent weeks as well.
