Ever take an anatomy class?

[Book Lover]

I was lucky enough to get a new position as an editor working on anatomy and physiology textbooks. I feel unwell every time I walk through our atlas of the human body. Please tell me I'll get used to seeing the human body so ... exposed!

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Oh yes...

There were parts of that book that made me shriek and shudder every time I accidentally opened to them... :rofl:

But yeah, you'll get used to it. :)

[Book Lover]

4. I hope so

I never fully understood the meaning of the word "flayed" before.

[Deja Q]

2. You'll get used to it...

but the next time you see the real thing, your perceptions may be more unnerving than before... :7

[Book Lover]

5. True

I caught myself studying my neice's feet last night in a rather clinical way as I changed her diaper :-)

[WindRavenX]

3. it's awesome

Especially understanding how the human heart functions--or fails.

Then again, I'm a bio major, so what do I know LOL.

[Book Lover]

6. I hope to move through the yargh and embrace the awesome soon!

And I'd better get on it; this is my job for a long time (I hope!)

[bertha katzenengel]

7. I did, but I always wanted to see a cadaver. We dissected cats.

:(

Seeing photographs of cross-sectioned cadavers kinda freaked me - this was in the early 80s, before MRIs and CTs and such.

You'll get used to it. It's an amazing thing. Good luck. :hug:

[Book Lover]

8. One good thing about that is nowadays there are many more quality digital

products in the marketplace for virtual dissections (cats, pigs, humans). Keep kitties in one piece after they go to the Rainbow Bridge!!! And you remind me that it is truly a great and generous gift when a person wills their body for medical or scientific study.

[mike_c]

9. my office is across the hall from our anatomy lab...

...where the dissected cadavers reside.

[Book Lover]

11. I think I'd rather see them "live"

than in pictures. At least you don't have to discuss color-correcting actual cadavers. "There's too much yellow in plate 13-1" I was told. Well, how the hell can you tell? It's a weeks-old dead liver!

[Lars39]

10. Yes.

I'm a Betsy Berry survivor. Nine months of hell. Wish I could do it again, though. :D

[Book Lover]

13. Don't know her name, but

I can imagine... the instructors in this field are tough! (if their reviews are anything to go by...)

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. Yep... doesn't phase me now. Good luck!

[Book Lover]

15. Thank you!

I need it :-)

[Fridays Child]

14. I had a high school substitute job once, where I had to show the same autopsy film...

...every hour for seven hours. It was pretty gruesome.

This week, I subbed in some junior high school classes.

I'll take the autopsy film, any day.

[Book Lover]

16. Thanks for the perspective

At least I don't actually go into the classroom; just make the books...