Path to pathologist: Residency program trains disease detectives
Sleuthing sickness
For as long as there’s been life, there’s been disease. The ancient Greeks were the first to try to study and understand it, bringing life to the discipline of pathology with dissections of deceased people by the physicians Herophilus and Erasistratus.
In the 1850s, Rudolph Virchow, a German physician and professor of pathology, pioneered translating this scientific discipline to the animal kingdom.