On Thursday I survived my first Gross Anatomy lab. It was pretty darn neat! After I got over the lovely smell and the fact that this person was actually a living person, it went well. I can just think about the fact that the cadaver that I am cutting up with my scalpel was actually a real person; ugh. I hope I'll get over that real quickly.
One great thing is that I have an amazing lab group. All four of them are really neat and smart people. Hopefully this will help make it a wonderful experience!
The only time I had a difficult time was at the end when I had accumulated a bunch of fat from the cadaver and I had to dispose of it in the tissue container. It's not every day that you grab a handful of adipose tissue that was residing in a human body! I didn't gag but boy was I close!
So that was my first gross lab experience. It was interesting and 'gross' (pun intended). Hopefully it will help me learn the muscles, nerves, bones, blood supply, etc, etc, etc!
I know that we have only been in school for a month, but I absolutely couldn't imagine myself doing anything else with my life besides medical school. :)
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