squeakypigs
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Next week in Biology, she is bringing in some lungs and going to chop them up and inflate them e.t.c. I don't really want to go to it but cos I am doing biology I feel as though I should. What would you do?
lolseh said:I couldn't do anything like that. I thought they had stopped cutting things like that up. Maybe that's just in schools.
squeakypigs said:Next week in Biology, she is bringing in some lungs and going to chop them up and inflate them e.t.c. I don't really want to go to it but cos I am doing biology I feel as though I should. What would you do?
Lucinda said:I would give my right arm to go to dissections and post-mortems. I have been in theatre many times and absolutely loved it.
I know you are different to me though - wish I could go for you!
Lucinda said:I love theatre especially lower GI (bowel) surgery.I wanted to be a Dr but was turned down to do medicine. The problem was I only realised I had the confidence to do it when I was in my 20s. Now, having been turned down I realise I don't want the nomadic lifestyle that it involves up into my early middle age. Had I done medicine I would have specialised in either Pathology or Gastro. I feel very sad that I will not fulfil my dream (I know I am bright enough), but I don't want to be moving from one hosp to another and competing with people ten years younger than me for registrar positions. I work with 55 + anaesthetists and have seen the strain it puts on them, moving all the time, unable to put down roots until offered a consultant position.
Instead I am applying this year to do nursing. They run the Diploma/ degree course in Truro so I can move home to Cornwall. I would like to be a theatre sister or possibly work in endoscopy/ stoma and colo-rectal care.
sarahp said:did you watch those programmes on the TV - that wierd German man with the hat who cuts up dead people?
Lucinda said:Gunther van Hagen is the TV pathologist. I videoed all his shows and often watch them while I eat my dinner as they are just the right length.
I would prefer an ordinary PM as his are done for show in a theatrical kind of way. Ordinary PMs are just as interesting, discovering the cause of death.