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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread first day #118614 01/01/04 06:40 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Philip has just met his partner in the anatomy lab. "He looked at the boy who had accompanied him into the dissecting-room and saw that he was white. "Make you feel rotten?" Philip asked him. "I've never seen anyone dead before." It often happened in the old days that a few members of each class would take one look at the dead bodies, and be unable to tolerate the sight, and immediately drop out of medical school. Now Compartive Anatomy is a pre-requisite, and the transition from dead animals to a dead human is relatively easy to make. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: first day #118615 01/02/04 04:35 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park some years ago, Jonathan Miller (a producer for BBC) did a TV series for them (picked up by PBS) about the human body and the 'functioning systems'... (resperation, circulation, endocrine... etc. the final episode was an autopsy. the deceased was a woman in her 80's with pulminary edema.(sypmtom of her cardic failure, partially a result of a childhood bout of rhuematic fever that had damaged her heart valves) she was interviewed before she died for the show. as Dr Miller made the first big cut, opening the chest cavity, i winced... all i could think of was the pain.. in a few moments, i realise, she wasn't feeling any pain, and the body i was looking at, was not the 'woman' who was speaking on screen a few minutes before.. i 'disconnected' the person(the spirit, the animated self) from the body.. and after that watching the autopsy was facinating. i have been in NYC's morgue and the morgue in Bellevue hospital (as a Xerox tech, working on machines there) but i have never been in the autopsy rooms, or seen a autopsy(except for the TV one). i don't think i would be put off, or frightened, at least not after the first few minutes. NYC morgue has a latin welcome-- translated in says: Welcome here, were death delights to teach the living. i think its a good motto for a morgue. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,372 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 767 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 28 A C Bowden 25 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,561 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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