Today was our first day as medical students for real! We got to see and meet our cadavers. It was intense. As I type this, my hands smell like crap. I already thought the lunch meat I opened smelled just like the chemicals in the lab. It kind of ruined my lunch. My hands smell and I didn’t really even do anything. There are 4 people per cadaver. Today, two people dissected and they will teach me and my partner on Friday what they learned today.
My cadaver is a old woman who had breast cancer. One of her breasts is completely destroyed. As we unzipped the bag with the cadaver in it for the first time, the cadaver wreaked and the cadaver had ropes tied around the neck and arms and a black bag over the head. It was really disturbing. What I didn’t like is that the cadaver had pink nail polish on her finger nails. It gave it a more than needed lifelike appearance. Also, the hands and feet are very realistic. The skin is really wrinkly and the face looks pretty real.
-MD in 14
