Not quite there yet…
Posted by enrico | Under Food, Medical School Sunday Nov 19, 2006I’m pretty good about not getting grossed out, but today shows I clearly have a ways to go before I really consider myself jaded. I can view surgery videos all day long, even while eating; the juxtaposition of whatever is on my plate with a close-up of an open chest/belly or a plastic surgeon hunking off chunks of abdominal fat during an abdominoplasty or panniculectomy poses no problem for me.
However, I could not, for the life of me, study pathology at all while eating lunch. Both GI and gyn path were just right out. I had a little leftover pasta from last night and made a good-sized salad to go with, so there was no correlation with the food–it’s just that pictures of ulcerations, nasty polyps, and diverticula on/in the colon was too much. I jumped ahead and was greeted with necrotic vulva, cervical discharge, and God knows what kind of myriad ovarian/uterine malignancies. I’m sorry, there’s a limit, and I just couldn’t do it. Things were easier when it was the heart and lungs. This is a different animal.
I closed the book, put on the Pittsburg/Cleveland game, and finished out my meal in peace.
Oh man…just wait till you get to OB/Gyn rotations down here….I used to think the coolest thing in med school would be helping birth the babies, but not any more…I will receive and revive all day long, but the OB can keep his job. Saw things at the IMSS that shouldn’t be seen by human eyes……*shudder*
No Robbins diet for me- I can look at photos all day long while licking taco sauce off my fingers. However, I am worried about sensitivity to smells. I sometimes make gagging noises if I clean the litter box too soon after it’s been used, and I am worried about embrarassing myself on the wards.