Well SORRY for thinking that Sonder ( meaning the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. ) is pretty much the same as OP looking at a brain and realizing that they were holding the being of a person and all of their life and memories.
hon, it's not really true, you know. holding a syringe with potentialy lethal medications, or a scalpel, or something the sort, THAT is the real moment when you're holding someone's entire life in your hands. Dead brain is just dead brain. It's the living that are important. Too much morbid, emotional shit is unnecessary in this business.
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· 8 years ago
Anytime you drive a car you hold someone's life in your hands. A dead brain did hold someone's entire life and the med student appreciated that. Maybe that student is too emotional or morbid to be in that business but it's certainly not just medical professionals who are responsible for peoples' lives, hon.
Definitelly, you're right. I was talking from my own perspective as a future medical professional.
I tried to point out what are the really important situations when you should focus on what you're doing and that's certainly not when you're holding dead body parts.
Perhaps I've had to endure too many pretentious colleagues who'd go aah-ing and ooh-ing every time there was something brain- or heart-shaped on the section table but wouldn't show at least half of that respect for the actual living patients.
I respect and am grateful for those people who decide to donate their bodies for science. I simply feel that we should devote more attention to the living because the dead, well, they don't give a shit.
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· 8 years ago
As someone who's studying this, you're definitely more equipped to appreciate and handle those situations. I'd much rather have a doctor who sees me as a person and not just a collection of body parts. You're right about focusing on the living and what's going on in front of you. this student was seeing/holding a human brain for the first time but if someone reacts that way every time they see one, they probably shouldn't be in that profession.
You sound like you have a really good handle on this, I think you'll be really good in this field.
Oh my god, we got from annoyingly calling each other 'hon' to this point of mutual acceptance. You drove it even further by paying me a compliment, thank you so much, it means a lot to me!
It's perfectly fine with me if people are in awe with things they see at medschool. I also feel I shouldn't be seen as cold-hearted and disdainful if I'm not so terribly impressed, and treat those organs like meat. They are meat. Precious meat someone generously gifted to us so we can learn from it but still meat. A great deal of my colleagues treated that meat with more respect than they bothered to show to living people who volunteered to be our lab patients. Things like that irritate me and make me burst out lectures about basic manners...which makes me even less popular but what the hell. :D
If you look to the upper right you'll see some VERY light scratches in the table.
Either way, the " skid marks " go both horizontally AND vertically, which wouldn't classify them as skid marks at all.
And tbqh, I bake A LOT and those really look like the cuts that end up on cutting boards after awhile.
this is really fresh brain. old, formaline-picked brain looks paler, shinier and way more like rubber. When I first held a human brain in my hands, all I could think about was if it would bounce off the floor.
At least 2 kinds of med students out there, I guess
But thank you, random internet person.
In a good way.
I tried to point out what are the really important situations when you should focus on what you're doing and that's certainly not when you're holding dead body parts.
Perhaps I've had to endure too many pretentious colleagues who'd go aah-ing and ooh-ing every time there was something brain- or heart-shaped on the section table but wouldn't show at least half of that respect for the actual living patients.
I respect and am grateful for those people who decide to donate their bodies for science. I simply feel that we should devote more attention to the living because the dead, well, they don't give a shit.
You sound like you have a really good handle on this, I think you'll be really good in this field.
It's perfectly fine with me if people are in awe with things they see at medschool. I also feel I shouldn't be seen as cold-hearted and disdainful if I'm not so terribly impressed, and treat those organs like meat. They are meat. Precious meat someone generously gifted to us so we can learn from it but still meat. A great deal of my colleagues treated that meat with more respect than they bothered to show to living people who volunteered to be our lab patients. Things like that irritate me and make me burst out lectures about basic manners...which makes me even less popular but what the hell. :D
Either way, the " skid marks " go both horizontally AND vertically, which wouldn't classify them as skid marks at all.
And tbqh, I bake A LOT and those really look like the cuts that end up on cutting boards after awhile.
At least 2 kinds of med students out there, I guess