A pathologist is a doctor who studies body tissues, blood, and organs to find out what disease a person has and why it happened. They often work in labs and help other doctors make accurate diagnoses.
“Pathologist” comes from Greek *pathos* meaning “suffering” or “disease” and *-logia* meaning “study of.” So a pathologist is literally someone who studies suffering or disease.
Pathologists are the “detectives” of the medical world, solving mysteries by looking at cells and tissues under a microscope. You may never meet them, but their report often decides what treatment you get. Without them, a lot of medicine would be guesswork.
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