life as a med student

the journey to become a doctor..is it making me less of a human???

here goes..the 3 1/2 years of my life as a medical student here in india..

1st year..

we stayed in a hostel which was formerly a hospital back in the days..and below our hostel was the dissection hall where they kept the corpses..ok..living just a few floors above the dead was nothing..

next was the journey finding human skeletal remains..we had to use it to study anat..these were real human bones..each of us had a set..some people even got fresh bones from the grave..on my study table was a human skull..after sometime we were used to it..the bones were like our studymate..we needed them to understand what we were studying..


that was still nothing..unfortunately for us..our dissection study was just before lunch everyday..initially for me i would'nt touch the human remains coz how can i eat lunch after that?? but after sometime..i got used to it..we would hold the muscles, nerves, brain, kidney..anything u name it..we've touched it all..with our bare hands..gross right??then our fingers would be wrinkled up because of the formalin..and the worst part of it..right after touching all those organs we would be racing to the dining hall to eat lunch..with our hands..we're used to it..no more ewwwww..

2nd year..

in 2nd year we started to study the causes of diseases-patho,microb..the neverending list of drugs..and not to forget forensic..

for forensics we had to observe 10 post-mortem..and u know how we managed to get 10??
almost every sunday we'll be hanging out at the morgue..just hoping that there woould be a post-mortem that day..in other words..we were hoping someone would die..isn't that bad?? when there is no case..we would be frustrated..how bad is that..frustrated coz someone did'nt die??

when there is a case we would all rush in since only 20 students are allowed per time..we would msg our friends hoping that they would come.. now coming to think about it..if i was in the family mmbrs shoes i would be very sad if someone died..

to be continued..
going out for dinner with friends..