Anyone feels sick in the Cadaver lab?

[lmay0001]

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Just fel i was going to vomit after seeing a badly preserved body. its just disgusting to see how you end up after death

 

[Mad Jack]

It's gross for like a week, then you get over it. Except when cadavers are legitimately poorly preserved and start to smell, ugh...

 

[takeurmeds02]

Yea it takes like a week or two to adjust but then you just get lightheaded from the formaldehyde and being elbow-deep in a body

 

[Sleman]

It's not the best experience, but it can be a lot better when cadavers are preserved well

 

[Domperidone]

Hells yea felt sick all the time after lab the first few weeks. Especially the first time I walked in and there was just this random pile of legs on a table. It was bit shocking, seeing 'death' like that.

It was more motivation to study prior to going, so I could spend the least amount possible at lab. After a while, particularly with exams looming, it was more like being on a 'mission'. You forget that you're surrounded by death and it's smells (or preservative smells) and get lost trying to 'find' things. I used to worry that I'd get the same feeling during surgical rotation, looking back not sure why I ever did (a living person's anatomy is so different, for one, not everything is a shade of puke grey/brown).

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

I still hate cadavers. Some smell terrible even when they are "preserved." Vicks vaporub, rubbed on the inside of my mask, is a lifesaver for me when I have to deal with them now for educational purposes.

 

[cellsaver]

Just fel i was going to vomit after seeing a badly preserved body. its just disgusting to see how you end up after death

One day in cadaver lab, a head from one of the nearby tables fell to the floor and rolled around. Everyone froze, stared in disbelief and then someone from that table picked it up nonchalantly and returned it to their table. It was chilling....for 2-3 minutes.

Then a group of us went out for lunch off campus in our scrubs and no one batted an eye.

You get over it

 

[sovereign0]

For me at least, the one thing that never goes away is the burning in the eyes.

 

[ewax]

One day in cadaver lab, a head from one of the nearby tables fell to the floor and rolled around. Everyone froze, stared in disbelief and then someone from that table picked it up nonchalantly and returned it to their table. It was chilling....for 2-3 minutes.

Then a group of us went out for lunch off campus in our scrubs and no one batted an eye.

You get over it

you went to lunch off campus in scrubs you wore in anatomy lab just previously? That is disgusting.

 

[OnePunchBiopsy]

Was anyone else always hungry after anatomy lab?

 

[Domperidone]

No.
But some of my friends were.
:C
(Something in the formaldehyde?)
Finding it ironic that we're now talking about being hungry after lab, in a thread that started off as a discussion about feeling sick during the lab. Lol

 

[Chillbo Baggins]

Was anyone else always hungry after anatomy lab?

Always.

 

[Spectre of Ockham]

Don't worry you'll soon have lunches at the morgue in no time. Babies might be a bit of a downer though.

 

[Lexdiamondz]

Was anyone else always hungry after anatomy lab?

yup. craved bbq afterwards haha

 

[waterbottle10]

Always.

Seriously always... Other ppl say that too . must be one of the chemicals

 

[QowsEatDumlogic]

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[Psai]

You guys were hungry after anatomy lab? Ummm... brb calling the psychiat uh I mean the polic mmm just hold on a second guys

 

[Styrene]

Just fel i was going to vomit after seeing a badly preserved body. its just disgusting to see how you end up after death

Worst part of medical school by far...and basically useless.