Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross

Author:Christine Montross [Montross, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2007-06-21T00:00:00+00:00

One of the basic premises I have about lab is that you should have a reaction to it—the thoughts, the sights, the smells—because this is a dead person and you’re going to be dead someday, too, and this is an inescapable association. There are people working in lab with me who never express their emotions. If they don’t have that emotional sensitivity now, they’ll be doing the same thing later on. There are going to be a lot of patients you are going to have to care for that will be physically, or whatever, unable to react to you, just like a cadaver, and you’ve got to be able to make yourself aware of the patient’s feelings, his pain or discomfort, and acknowledge this as part of your work, something you must have if you’re going to be a good doctor.

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