Body of Work #7

comments

1. The text book weren't very clear.
2. Everything sounds easier in print.
3. When the chest was cracked evrything was not all just there and easy to see
4. The body didnt gicve off a pleasnt smell.
5. The instructors weren't very hands on.

Questions

1. Why werent the teachers more invoved?
2. Were they attempting to make the student more independant?
3. Was the course going to become more difficult?
4. Where they going to vistit other labs?

Vocabulary

1. Thoracic- involving or located in the chest
2. Sutures- a piece of material used to close a wound or connect tissues, e.g. catgut, thread, or wire
3. Cervical- relating or belonging to the cervix of the womb

Literary terms

1. "...the teachers were like shadows..."
2. "... The cadaver seemed to have a personality..."

Overview

1. this chapter just spoke about the different parts of the cadaver and the difficulties facing the students.

Body of Work #6

Comments

1. When the body was open she got even more nervous
2. She felt slightly sick.
3. Her other classmates were extremely nervous to.
4. The smell of the lab made her sick thinking about it.

Questions

1. why would she want to be a doctor if the though made her nervous?
2. why did she start to become a doctor so late?
3. would her teachers make a lasting and influential impression?
4. how many bodies would she disect in medical school?

Vocabulary

1. Clavicle- the long curved bone that connects the upper part of the breastbone
2. Sternum- the breast bone
3. Xyphoid- a section below the sternum

Literary terms

1. "...stif as a rock."
2. " ... smelled like something I've never smelled."

Over view

1. This section spoke mainly about her feelings about the disection again.

Body of Work #5

Comments

1. Upon seeing the techniques that she will have to use she becomes very nervous.
2. When seeing the cadaver she may have to dismatle she sees her grandmother.
3. The sawing to bone smells like a denti's office.
4. Her cadaver had no hair.
5. The lack of hair on the body helped with the depersonilization of the body.

Questions

1. Was she second guessing medical school?
2. Did she have a phobia of dentists?
3. would she have prefered to have her cadaver appear more human like?
4. Why was her textbook more specific about proceedures?

Vocabulary

1. fascia- a flat surface
2. extraneous- not relavent
3. prosecutions- prosuit of legal action

Literary Terms

1. "... our textbooks were like road maps to the term..." similie
2. "... they looked like prisoners of war..." similie

Overview

1. This section was spoke about her thoughts and feelings about the cadaver.

Body of Work #4

Comments

1. The students would spend seven hours a day twice a week in the atonomy lab.
2. All the students were semi reluctant to go into the lab.
3. Not all people in Med. school share the same intrest in sciences.
4. Many people in medical school didnt major in the same sciences, some majored in the history of science.
5. many of the author's classmates were 21 and alittle older.

Questions

1. What made her change her carreer?
2. Where do they get the bodies from?
3. Do people often give there bodies to science?
4. Why did they need to "depersonalize" the body?

Vocabulary

1. twang- a nasal noise
2. desiccation- lose moisture
3. disperse- to scatter

Literary Terms

1. a forcep compared to a rat tooth - anthropormophicism
2. "... clarity in disorder..." metaphore

Overview

1. This section was about her introduction to a disection and the beginings of technique.

Body of Work #3

Comments

1. Death may be considered to be the world's greatest secret.
2. She was anxious about disecting a body.
3. She was once disturbed by how poeple would kiss thier dead relatives at funerals.
4. The narrator had a hard time focusing on her first full morning of lecture.
5. Her professor was very enthusiastic about the new semester.

Questions

1. Why would she pick a carrer where she felt uneasy?
2. Why wouldn't the professor lecture whil they were disecting the bodies?
3. Why wasn't she more focused on the lecture?
4. Why didnt she write down the code for the lock to the lab?

Vocabulary

1. carafe - a container for serving drinks
2. conjures- to preform magic tricks
3. slack- to loosen

Literary Terms

1. "... quiet my mind." metaphore
2. Vast imagery was used when describing the different organs they would be seeing upon the disection.

Overview

1. This section speaks about the author's anxioty about her first disection of a human body.

Body of Work #2

Comments

1. Anyone who can identify mass quantieties of bones just by feel has a knack to be in the medical field somewhere.
2. The book expresses alot of graphic thoughts.
3. The author's first day of classes was mainly just a social time to banter.
4. The narrator is studding in Rhode Island .
5. The human atinimy lab was empty on the first day.

Questions

1. Was she disturbed to have been carrying around 2/3 of a human skeleton in a box for school?
2. Why was she so reluctant to open the box?
3. How can something be eerie but beautiful?
4. The skull isn't just one bone?

Vocabulary

1. Formalin- a solution of formaldehyde
2. Cadavers- corpse
3. Psychiatry- feild of medicine

Literary Terms

1. Imagery is used when describing the skull in the " bone box".
2. "... of a large fish hanging in a museums..." ( a metaphore in reference to the bones in her box)

Overview

1. This chapter was about the author's first encounters with her bone box.

Body of Work #1

Coments

1. "Life truths seem to contradict eachother." is an intense statement.
2. The author says that to learn how to heal the living the secrets lie in the dead.
3. Many find dead bodies repulsive and sad but she finds them interesting.
4. Bodies may be dead but are full of lifes' secrets.
5. sometimes before you find the career that best suits you, you have several unrelated carreers.

Questions

1. Did the author's love for english arts inspire her to write this book?
2. When did sh e relize that was the feild she wanted to pursue?
3. Does her family's sicknesses compell her to keep going?
4. Do most people in the medical field remember thier first body they exam?

Vocabulary

1. mutants- something that has mutated
2. superflous- more than nessasary
3. hues- colors

Literary terms

1. "... legs spread out like a snow angle." similie
2. "... as if gravity were a law..." similie

Overview

1. This chapter begins to explain why the author decided to become a doctor.