Portland Pathologists

A pathologist is a physician who specializes in the causes and paths taken by different diseases in order to accurately diagnose an illness.

In addition to determining the cause and development of a disease, these specialists also study the changes a disease makes to a body and the consequences of those structural changes.

Pathologists diagnose and determine the characteristics of a disease through the study of biopsies of diseased tissue or of bodily fluids. For example, a pathologist will look at a biopsy of a skin lesion in order to diagnose or rule out skin cancer. A pathologist will also look at a Pap smear in order to check for a gynecological cancer like cancer of the uterus.

The area of Portland, OR has a population of approximately 841,711 people. There are 113 pathologists near Portland, which gives it a ratio of 1 pathologist per 7,449 residents or a ratio of 1 pathologist per 3,113 households. There are 351,771 households in Portland.