Path Lab

We had our first Pathology lab this afternoon. There were lungs with pulmonary emboli intact, right at the pulmonary artery bifurcation, one spleen with a small artery infarct and thus just a triangle of dead tissue, and another all black with necrosis. They came in with on a tray, covered by a moist blue towel that was slowly peeled back to reveal the body parts as the Path resident described a hypothetical case.

I think what I can take from it is that I'll never be happy when in the same room as preserved body parts. To look at another person's brain, massive embolism not withstanding, is to wonder what thoughts it once contained.


I'm listening to:
Magazine: Maybe it's right to be nervous now