Today was an extremely busy day. Aside from completing my 2nd last exam of first year medical school, and getting my pre-op physical and blood work done, I attended a memorial for our cadavers in our anatomy course last semester.
After lunch today, our school put on a memorial service to honour our cadavers and their families. It was a wonderful experience. Many families of the donors came to the service where there was a choir, musicians, and speakers from the various colleges within our university. The medical school dean and student president spoke. The student president gave an emotional speech that didn't leave a dry eye in the house. Also, each of the groups submitted a short paragraph on how thankful we were to our cadavers for donating their bodies to science. Ours read as follows:
"The human body is so incredibly profound, and the experience offered us simply couldn't be taught by any textbook. Our knowledge of the integrity and dynamics of the human body is now so vast, and we are incredibly humbled by the sacrifice given for us. Thank you!"
Donating a body to science is truly an amazing gift to so many people. Not only have we, as medical students, learned (as best we could) about the intricacies of the human body, but it has laid an anatomical foundation upon which we build our medical school knowledge. Anatomy is integral to every aspect of medicine, and for somebody to help in this way to facilitate our knowledge is incredible.
Having said this, I would rather never step into another anatomy lab ever, ever again.
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