Ah, it’s much too early in the day for med school PTSD.
I always hated anatomy classes, nor was I particularly fond of dissections, finding a relatively fresh corpse was a luxury, and most of the time they’d been embalmed in formaldehyde so long that they were one bandage wrapping away from mummy status.
At that point, finer internal structures become akin to a greyish mess of the worst cable-management imaginable, and it’s an absolute nightmare to distinguish between arteries, veins or nerves, they’re all thin grey wires.
Even in live patients, it’s often not trivial, but surgeons do get much better at it over time.
Now, what always pissed me off was the love of Unnecessary Latin.
“quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur”, if you’d pardon my Greek.
But nothing triggered me more than the farcical naming of certain anatomical structures, because of course there’s an innominate artery and innominate bone, and why shouldn’t we name something as “nameless” in Latin?
Man, I’m going into psychiatry just so I never have to memorize the brachial plexus again haha.
Ah, it’s much too early in the day for med school PTSD.
I always hated anatomy classes, nor was I particularly fond of dissections, finding a relatively fresh corpse was a luxury, and most of the time they’d been embalmed in formaldehyde so long that they were one bandage wrapping away from mummy status.
At that point, finer internal structures become akin to a greyish mess of the worst cable-management imaginable, and it’s an absolute nightmare to distinguish between arteries, veins or nerves, they’re all thin grey wires.
Even in live patients, it’s often not trivial, but surgeons do get much better at it over time.
Now, what always pissed me off was the love of Unnecessary Latin.
“quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur”, if you’d pardon my Greek.
But nothing triggered me more than the farcical naming of certain anatomical structures, because of course there’s an innominate artery and innominate bone, and why shouldn’t we name something as “nameless” in Latin?
Man, I’m going into psychiatry just so I never have to memorize the brachial plexus again haha.