Hematopathology: a leap forward in pathology. A personal view

Focusing on leaves while ignoring the forest: reflections on the lack of hypothesis‐driven research in dermatopathology and what is to be done

“…Hematopathology – described by Ronald Dorfman 2 in his Maude Abbott Lecture as a ‘crescendo of scholarly activity’– is the most consistently progressive subspecialty in pathology. The reason is simple: the subspecialty embraced early on the integration of basic science, propagated by immunopathologists and molecular biologists, and thus allowed for a ‘leap forward in pathology’ 3 . There is no reason to assume that this could not be possible for dermatopathology.…”