Ever since I was a little kid, I think I’ve been obsessed with words. I loved the idea of capturing a feeling in a sentence or describing a person so completely that you could see them right there in your mind. The perfect words in the perfect order, or at least that’s what I strove […]
A Letter to My Cadaver
Dear Donor, Anatomy has always been challenging for me, but was especially challenging this second-year of medical school. Last year, we did a lot of organ system dissection, dissecting very prominent structures that were relatively easy to identify. This year during the neurology and musculoskeletal units, we dissected more nerves than I will ever in […]
10 Tips for Shining in Anatomy Lab
Dissecting a human cadaver is one of the most unique and meaningful aspects of medical school. In a way that no simulation could mimic, anatomy lab forces you to simultaneously confront mortality, recognize the variability of the human form, and understand the spatial relationships between the hundreds of structure that you will learn. But while […]
