JP
Agreed. The comment was "instead of" - and Miller obviously wasn't keen on it. Personally I am not either, but then again I'm not happy with the way it's being taught now.
What struck Mrs. Machiavelli - who was a paramedic - the most was the sheer beauty of the complexity of the human body. Speaking as an engineer it must be the same feeling I get when I open up a piece of well designed equipment where its clear on a visceral level that alot of thought (or in the case of the human body, trial and error) has gone into every screw and subcomponent. It's a feeling that will stay with her throughout her career, and impact every patient she treats.
It is also a process that connects her with all those who have come before her, tracing the systematic study of the human body all the way back to Galen. In that sense it is also an initiation.
But it is expensive, and as the cliche goes "Learning about the human body from a cadaver is like learning about trees from a telephone pole". I was simply curious how others felt about this subject - hence the posting.
Regards
Nick