hehe....lab this morning was interesting to say the least.

3 med students peer into the eviscerated cadaver....pink, gray, green, and brown all around.
Our Mission: "Guts on the Tray"
Procedure:
Cut the colon and esophagus and all the associated arteries.
We're nearly done. Just one more to find: the all elusive Inferior Vena Cava as it emerges from the Liver.
Student 1: Where could it be?
Student 2: I don't know...maybe we cut it already?
*Head scratching and muttering continues*
Student 3: is it that?
Students 1 and 2: nah...can't be...let's lift the liver out first
*Liver is emancipated partially from under the diaphragm....student #1 grunts and pulls and finally frees the mass from captivity. *
Student 3: how about that? that looks like a vein, it's really thin....
Student 1: ok...let's cut it.
*vessel cut....liver lifted up and out....students peer in once again.*
All 3: Uh...oh....what's THAT?
Student 1: i think...it's the inferior vena cava...but then, what did we just cut out?!
Professor: What's happening here?
Students: um...we're not sure, what is this?
Professor: that's the IVC, just cut it.
Student 2: then what's this *as he points to the severed vessel previously cut out
Professor: that? oh, it's the ureter.
Students: the ureter?!! but why is it coming out of the liver
Professor: the liver? haha...you kids just pulled out the liver AND the underlying kidney.
*Students *peer once again into the body....scratch their heads**
Student 3: oh...we took the kidney out? oops....well, we have another one on the left side, right?

This folks is the Future of MEDICINE in America

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