Chicken a la Condyle
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Loading ...Yesterday I was eating some baked chicken…a regular entree, nothing fancy, one that I’ve had countless times. This time, it was accompanied with a simple salad. As I ate my favorite part of the chicken, the thigh, it occurred to me what fiendish, subconscious changes medical school does to you, insidiously altering your thought patterns. Instead of just eating like a normal person, appreciating the good food, I look down at the exposed chicken bone and think, “What nicely smooth articular cartilage” as I see what is obviously the femur (or the analogous chicken bone–I’m in med school, not vet school) and the bilateral condyles that shape the distal end staring me in the face. I’m sure every (non-vegetarian) medical student has gone through this (perhaps earlier if they took college anatomy), but it’s a terrible thing. I started thinking about other good chicken parts like the wing, and how it too is analogous to the human arm, having a single thick bone followed by two parallel thinner bones in the forelimb. Like Robert Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, we can not go back to that simple time pretending not to have ever come to this knowledge.
Waxing philosophical, I thought to myself, “I wish I had a biscuit to go with this…”
Humor, Medical School | enrico | 
September 13, 2005 8:57 pm
By Anonymous, September 13, 2005 @ 11:35 pm
BISCUIT
Just make sure it ain’t from KFC from Plaza Mexico, you may need a dentist after dinner not a mint…
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