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Old 08-19-2006, 09:48 AM   #10101
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Old 08-19-2006, 10:26 AM   #10102
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While we're sharing awkward moments from school: I can tell you about my son when he was six y/o. It happened during a school play. All of a sudden he took his hat off, said I don't feel well, turned around and threw up in the hat.
Aww, those memories...
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I love the smell of bacon in the morning.
I love the smell of burning flesh in the morning.

Well, not quite. It was an intriguing smell when I sat in on an operation once while doing work experience, though.
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Old 08-19-2006, 12:39 PM   #10104
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What, was the guy on fire?
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No. But hip replacements involve burning some of the flesh with what is effectively a soldering iron.
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Old 08-19-2006, 12:43 PM   #10106
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They ligate larger vessels with sutures but they use cautery to stop the bleeding from small vessels.
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^ What she said.

Anyway, hip replacements are just a cross between butchery and carpentry. So crude.
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Well, not quite. It was an intriguing smell when I sat in on an operation once while doing work experience, though.
How come you got the opportunity to attend an operation? Surgery is not the first thing I come to think about when thinking about places to go for work experience. Especially since you're into History.



The smell during autopsy is also special. In between highschool and uni I worked a year as a char-woman at a hospital. I cleaned the morgue for a couple of weeks and got to see (among a lot of interesting things) an autospy.
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How come you got the opportunity to attend an operation? Surgery is not the first thing I come to think about when thinking about places to go for work experience. Especially since you're into History.



The smell during autopsy is also special. In between highschool and uni I worked a year as a char-woman at a hospital. I cleaned the morgue for a couple of weeks and got to see (among a lot of interesting things) an autospy.
There's a very simple explanation, actually. I almost chose to do medicine instead, before dropping the idea for a number of reasons (mostly because the work available in the UK is in something of a state of flux, and nobody could even give me an idea of what I could expect to be doing in twenty years' time). Of course, I dropped the idea after I'd done the work experience, though it was thoroughly interesting and enjoyable stuff.

Mind you, with my lack of bedside manner, I'd almost certainly make an atrocious doctor .

Oh, and I've never sat in on an autopsy, but I did see a freshly dead body. They get this strange kind of waxy effect, which makes it all a bit surreal. The closest I've come to autopsy is in watching the great Gunther von Hagen (he of the crazy hat) at work on some television programmes. I'm the kind of person who loves watching that kind of thing.
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I'm the kind of person who loves watching that kind of thing.
Well, let's discuss autopsies if we ever meet Rob! I rememeber finding it very interesting too. I told my parents all about it at dinner table the same day.
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I always wanted to work a nightshift at a mourg(sp?) so I could pose all the bodies when I was heading out. Then the guy working the day shift would come in and be like wtf?
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Mind you, with my lack of bedside manner, I'd almost certainly make an atrocious doctor .
How odd. I thought a near-total lack of bedside manner was a requirement for surgeons.
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We can't all be House, sadly .
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We can't all be House, sadly .
You'd have to grow a thin beard and adopt an American accent.

Also wasn't he Cambridge rather than Oxford?
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Yeah. He was a Footlights member, IIRC.
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Perhaps you should model yourself on Quince (ME) instead. Less need for a bedside manner and it caters to your interests.
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But he's such a smug know-it-all that's always right...

Ah, I see what you mean .
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If the chapeau is of appropriate dimensions.........;
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... use it as a bear trap?
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