Very interesting if you have a strong stomach.

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I found this website that is extremely interesting, and you can learn a lot from. It is a British television show called Autopsy: Life and Death. The show is about diseases that kill people such as cancer, poisoning, and circulatory problems. They perform an autopsy in front of anatomy students and explain what each disease does to the body, and they show you in the organs exactly what it looks like. These are real autopsies, so if you don't have a strong stomach, I don't know if it is something you want to watch.

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/autopsy/

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

Cool link, thanks! Wish y'all coulda seen my husband's face when he came in and saw an autopsy on my computer screen! :lol2::lol2:

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.
Wow...all I can say is wow!

I watched the one on aging, a topic I teach, and...well...appropriate for the classroom? What do you think? I'd love to use it!

You know, I wish we would have gotten to see something like this in our geri class. I think it would be okay, but then I am sure there are some who wouldn't.

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In my A&P classes, we had 6 human cadavers. As we opened up the abdominal cavity of one of the cadavers, we were identifying all the organs. Then we came across something that seemed very strange, and we thought it looked pathological. Sure enough, this woman had died of stomach cancer that had spread throughout her abdomen, and in my hands, I held a tumor that weighed about 10 pounds. It was strange to be holding a cancerous tumor in my hands like that, but very cool at the same time. I absolutley loved A&P.

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wow.

you guys are impressive and so professional!

i'm sitting here, legs crossed, leaning forward, hand-over-mouth, eyes bulging as i watched the 17 yo cadaver being cut open...

i will slowly work up the nerve to watch the rest.

it IS fascinating.

leslie

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Specializes in Peds(PICU, NICU float), PDN, ICU.

Very well presented! I'm learning so much from this. We only got to disect a fetal pig in class. I'm watching the poisoning one now and it makes understanding the kidney function SO easy. I have a strong stomach but its presented in a decent way for those who may not have a strong stomach.

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