Have you ever wondered what a breast implant looks like after it’s been in your body for a while?
The body has a pretty amazing immune response to a breast implant, which is to treat it as a foreign object. The body’s immune system will form a capsule of collagen fibers around the implant, to wall [...]
Today was my first exam in Gross anatomy, and it went very well. The exam covered the back and upper limb. If you would have asked me 3 weeks ago I would have told you there is no way I’ll be able to cover all the material we covered for this exam. Not to mention [...]
Let me start by saying the first cut in anatomy is a pretty memorable experience. It’s kind of a monumental period in a career in medicine. Our first lab was titled “Dissection of the Back,” Pretty straightforward. So my first incision was a shallow incision from the back of the neck down the spine towards [...]
First off, I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been kind of busy lately, and put the blog on the backburner. Ever since my last post, my ex-girlfriend ( I’ll have to explain that later) came to visit me for a week and I spent most of my free time with her. Consequently [...]
I would have to say that Gross Anatomy is the class I’ve been looking forward too most. It’s going to be amazing to get up close and personal with all the organs of the body and see how they are all interconnected. However, along with the excitement of what I’m going to learn, there is [...]
Since my last post, I’ve had several exams, which ended this past Friday. Studying for them was pretty intense so it was good to have a short hiatus from school work this past weekend. One of the exams was a lab practical for histology. Which was really interesting. For the practical, there were 45 stations [...]
So this week, we have a big test that culminates our integrated set of lectures on abnormal amniocentesis. The exam will take two days. Wednesday we have the biochemistry and genetics portion of the exam. Then Friday morning will be the written portion of the microanatomy/histology exam along with the gross anatomy embryology exam. Afterwards [...]
In today’s microanatomy lab we were supposed to look at slides from different types of connective tissue. But I couldn’t help but get distracted and look at a slide from a cross-section of a human embryo! It’s amazing to think that at one point in time, I was an embryo no wider than the width [...]
Today we had an interesting lecture entitled, “Ethical Issues in Genetic Counseling.” It was probably our most interactive lecture yet, because it dealt with some pretty thought provoking issues concerning ethics in genetic counseling. In the lecture she taught us about the role of a genetic counselor. Basically, a physician can refer a patient to [...]
This Friday the student government organized an awesome welcome back party. It was a semi/formal party held at the Waterworks restaurant, which is a beautiful restaurant located on the edge of the Schuylkill River and across the street from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They rented out the entire restaurant, and turned it into a [...]
