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| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
Go first? First go on the pizza slice? 
I don't think I could handle doing that. Not for work. Would maybe handle it to a point but anything to do with checking eyes or something or having to deform the face (dunno if you need to do that?) really couldn't handle.
And if I did I reckon I'd have a weird view of people non-dead bodies from then on lol. Like see a fat person scuttling about "damn would have to dump maybe 5kg of fat just to get through that!".
Suppose you've gotta handle live people amputated limbs too, couldn't handle that either. |
Heh, go first as in be the first student from our rotation to go see one.
And yeah it's not for everybody...it was a little intense at first even for me, and I'm very comfortable with death/dying/dead bodies. It's difficult to separate the "life" from the "body". In the autopsy room that's all it is...a body. Pathologists obviously have to have a completely different mindset than nurses.
And no they don't deform the face. He made an incision around the back of the head/neck and peeled the scalp forward, then opened up the skull and took out the brain.
edit: After they were done examining all the organs and getting their samples, they put all the insides into a plastic bag and sewed it back up inside the abdomen. And then the face was pulled back over the skull and sewed back up. 
Last edited by Silky Johnson on Oct-04-2008 at 19:37
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