4 December 2019 (Wednesday) - NEQAS 1903 DF

I finally obtained the result of NEQAS manual differential exercise 1903DF today. Here’s what we had, and the consensus results in brackets

            Abs        %

Neut     6.9        36%      (37%)

Lymph  3.8        20%      (12%)

Mono    0.9        4.5%     (7%)

Eo        6.5        34%      (37%)

Baso    0.3        1.5%     (1%)

Meta     0.6        3%       (1.3%)

Myelo   0.2        1%       (1.5%)

Blast     0          0%

Nrbc     0.1        0.5 per 100 Wbc  (1)

Corrected Wbc 19.2 (19.2)

I think I did OK…​

3 December 2019 (Tuesday) - Fritsma Factor Email

The Fritsma Factor email arrived in my in-box today. As always it’s one of the better sources of CPD.

30 November 2019 (Saturday) - Acute Panmyelosis with Myelofibrosis

This morning on the Facebook “Hematology Interest Group” there was talk of Acute Panmyelosis with Myelofibrosis. I’d never heard of it. I looked it up – and learned something new…

And there are those who look down on social media.