And it really takes training to see what people with trained eyes see.
With untrained eyes, it's not even easy to distinguish colon, liver, lung and pancreas. And when it comes to detailed histopathological changes, it's even more difficult.
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Can you guess what they are?
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Even if we are looking at the same sample and image, the information we get can be very different. When we want to learn how and what to look, we need help from someone who can explain the images. Only when we learn to connect the dark spots to dead cells, and the fattened mass of cells to pre-cancerous lesions, we begin to get meaningful information out of the images.
I respect creativity and all. But there are so much stuff that are already existing. And, if you don't know these, you cannot even communicate with knowledgeable people, or have access to existing knowledge. You don't have to reinvent wheels and you can ride on the giant's shoulder to enjoy the view. But you got to climb up the giant to get to his shoulder.
Ignorance or innocence cannot get you far. If you want to ride on the existing knowledge to get far, get education in the art of your choice with the language the experts speak, and install the thought process commonly shared in the art with the aid of teachers and mentors who are good at the art themselves.
Many arts need you to have specific ways of thinking and viewing to be fully appreciated and understood. Arts have been inherited through apprenticeship and tutorials. Arts tend to thrive on the like-minded or through the "gifted" champion figures. This is a common sense among many groups of people who are good at their art. But a few might find this honest statement politically incorrect, because they want to believe the statement that "people are equal" and deny the differences in abilities and suitability among people.
You should not take your ability and suitability as innate and entirely genetic, rigid and unchangeable. They can change over time. Yet, you might want to take them into account in choosing what you do for the sake of yourself and others. If you don't want to protect and to serve, don't become a cop or a national guard. If you cannot stand watching pictures of tissues, find something other than histologist or oncopathologist.
People may be equal at first in an abstract and legal sense, but what people acquire and what people become because of the acquired, are not equal. People differentiate. And they function as different as colon, lung, liver and pancreas in the society.
So, what's the message? I like getting educated in arts. But depending on your ability and suitability, arts can choose or reject you. Look for happy matching. Also, today you've learned how tissues of colon, lung, liver and pancreas look like under microscope. One day this knowledge will get you one million dollars in the "Slumdog millionaire" situation.
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Colon with crypts Lung with alveoli
Liver with hepatic lobules Pancreas with Langerhans islets
[disclaimer: These pictures are not mine. All rights belong to photographers of the originals]
