"Everything I Need To Know, I Learned In Anatomy"

 

• If you can make it through the first day without passing out, you're going to be okay.

 

• When you take care of your body, your body will be good to you.

 

• Regardless of what anyone tells you, we're not all the same on the inside; however, it is what's on the inside that counts (at least, as far as practicals are concerned).

 

• Formaldehyde really does make you hungry;  it was once used as an appetite enhancing treatment for anorexia nervosa.

 

• Nothing says a man is more comfortable with his sexuality than a pair of maroon scrubs.

 

• Few things on earth pose a greater danger than an anxious medical student wielding a sharp object.

 

• A lifetime of fast food will work wonders for your aorta.

 

• The power saw:  it isn't just for carpentry any more!

 

• Frank H. Netter is a god among men (and knows how to enjoy a good Cuban while at work).

 

• When treated roughly, livers can grow to the size of small children.

 

• Newton's Fourth Law of Gravity:  when lifting a hemi-pelvis from its holding bucket, the pelvis will inevitably slip from your hands and send a tidal wave of pelvi-juice in which you will be baptized.

 

• The human brain is disappointingly small.

 

• You will never forget your donor.

 

• Your family no longer wants to know what you did at school each day.

 

• Once you begin to peruse "The Photo Atlas of Anatomy" with each meal, you are no longer fit for polite society...

 

 

(Submitted by a former OU-HCOM student...although she denies authorship)

 

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