Gross No More

May 14th, 2004

Today was our last dissection for Gross Anatomy…and not a day too soon, either. What started out as an identifiable, intact, human-like cadaver was turned into, over 10 long and smelly months, a messy pile of small scraps. There is no piece larger than a few inches, and no body part has been untouched.

Don’t get me wrong…I am grateful to our cadaver for having donated herself to our program in order for us to learn human anatomy in detail (finally I know where the liver is). But, after many hours crowding around the table staring at her — not to mention all the time spent inside that glowing white dissection room, wearing our once-white-now-yellow lab coats, and absorbing all the unavoidable smells the room has to offer — I’m relieved that Gross is done.

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