The First Cut:
Already, their thoughts are drifting up a flight of stairs to the sprawling dissection lab, where in two days they will meet and become intimate with something many have scarcely encountered: Death.
Today they begin the defining course of their medical education.
A required rite of passage on the way to a doctor’s white coat, gross anatomy offers first-year students a hands-on tour of an actual human body.
Talk about hands on training.
Years ago I worked on a gross anatomy lab renovation. I tell you, it gave a whole new meaning to “crumbs left on the table.”
OK…ew…. 🙂
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