The sight of a hemisected head in a tupperware container is not natural. Before starting medical school, I know I would have been taken aback by such a sight. But today felt no different than any other day in anatomy lab.
After a hiatus from anatomy lab (we had no anatomy in renal), we returned to the 13th floor for a two and half hour session of Gastrointestinal anatomy. There will be one more session of anatomy at the end of the week for M & N.
Four out of six group members came dressed in blue scrubs, reunited and assuming the same group roles we had in Prologue. We reviewed the gastrointestinal tract and associated organs, which had been dissected in Prologue. We also got a preview of the Brain, Mind, and Behavior Dissection as we examined the anatomy of a hemisected head and the space behind the esophagus in our cadaver (the head had been loosened from the neck for us).
When we got to examining the hemisected head, nothing felt unusual about anatomy lab, not even a flinch when the lid was peeled back. Is that normal? I suppose we are becoming sensitized to seeing human organs and body parts in isolation, akin to specimens that need to be studied to identify key anatomical landmarks.
Although I feel programmed to focus on the anatomy, I can't help but wonder how we can overlook the most obvious thing: we are studying the bodies of individuals--like me and you--whose lives we will never get to know.
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