Having a rough time
Feb. 19th, 2004 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesI am quite behind. No sooner do I get a physiology chapter read, than the lecturer starts on a new one. And no sooner do I get a region of anatomy (or the nerves, or the bones, or the muscles) firmly in my head... than we start a new one. Let's not even discuss research design, clinical skills, or the clinical seminar class.
I'm trying not to panic. I'm not very successful at not panicking.
In related news, I've discovered that it's good to put your car keys in the leg pocket of your scrubs. Do not put them in the chest pocket. It wouldn't do to lean over the cadaver and lose them in there.
Our cadaver, the only female of the group, is small and fragile. Other people have much larger ones. Larger is both good and bad: You spend lots of time scraping fat off, but then you have large and well defined muscles to look at when you are done. (One of the male cadavers is small... i.e. short... and thoroughly muscled. He's old, but not fat. Even with the skin off, you can see the power and vitality he had. But working on our small, frail female cadaver drives home to us just how fragile the frail elderly can be. (Ours had a strip of tape on the wrist... and a bad bruise on the back of her hand.... strongly reminiscent of an IV insertion site. I'm guessing that she was hospitalized.)
I'm trying not to panic. I'm not very successful at not panicking.
In related news, I've discovered that it's good to put your car keys in the leg pocket of your scrubs. Do not put them in the chest pocket. It wouldn't do to lean over the cadaver and lose them in there.
Our cadaver, the only female of the group, is small and fragile. Other people have much larger ones. Larger is both good and bad: You spend lots of time scraping fat off, but then you have large and well defined muscles to look at when you are done. (One of the male cadavers is small... i.e. short... and thoroughly muscled. He's old, but not fat. Even with the skin off, you can see the power and vitality he had. But working on our small, frail female cadaver drives home to us just how fragile the frail elderly can be. (Ours had a strip of tape on the wrist... and a bad bruise on the back of her hand.... strongly reminiscent of an IV insertion site. I'm guessing that she was hospitalized.)
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Date: 2004-02-19 08:55 pm (UTC)Now I don't think I can ever put anything in a shirt pocket again! :)
You will do very well at getting caught up.
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Date: 2004-02-21 07:26 pm (UTC)Yah. On the one hand, working on a cadaver is pretty gross. On the other hand, there's no substitute for seeing it all out in front of you-- the charts just don't do the human body justice. And yes, there are definitely practical considerations (like where your keys go, like wearing two sets of latex exam gloves, you name it).
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Date: 2004-02-21 10:04 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-22 07:56 am (UTC)yep! I don't remember whether I mentioned the bone box (one per group) that contains a complete and disassembled replica human skeleton. It's one thing to look at one that's already been wired together. It's another thing to test your knowledge by trying to put it together yourself. (On my first attempt, had I been assembling an actual human, that person would have ended up with a leg pointed backwards and resting comfortably by his (or her) ear. Whooooops!