funny really

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Date: 18 July 2006 10:28:07

I think it's quite amusing when you spray nasal spray up your nose and feel the effects in your ear straight away.

Last night I watched the first episode of Anatomy for Beginners and found it very interesting. In our anatomy labs we have prosections, which are cadavers that have been pre-dissected and preserved. They are quite useful but what we can "do" to them is limited. We can stick our fingers under muscles and dig around for nerves and stuff like that but it's more an interactive display than a voyage of discovery. On the show last night, the cadaver was fresh - it hadn't been preserved at all (as far as I could tell) and it was so... soft! The brain was like jelly! Well actually the crazy German anatomist compared it to blancmange (I think this was why I thought he was French... but I just looked it up and he's German) and demonstrated the texture of the brain by throwing a bowl of blancmange on the floor. Amazing to think that the thing that tells our bodies what to do in almost every situation (excluding various reflex actions and the effect of gravity for example) is so fragile. Hurrah for skulls!!

Tomorrow is hospital day where we will be doing something about oxygen administration. I'm not sure where I will lurk for the rest of the day. I might try and find some friendly doctor to follow around. Surely there must be one somewhere!