medically challenged: class amusement

ingrid is here visiting right now - so lucky to have her come! - but i'm blaming my blog deficiency on her. anyway, we've had a bit of fun in class lately which is definitely lucky since the lung is wanting for amusement. and we've been doing the lung for 3.5 weeks now. who knew breathing was so complicated??? my only message is: don't smoke. we can't cure lung ailments anyway, but we definitely can't help you if you smoke.

last week we showed up to lecture at 9:00 a.m., as usual (or i showed up at 9:03 a.m., as usual). without any of the usual introduction (hi, thanks for coming to class so early, it was only 37.4 years ago that i was sitting in these exact seats, blah, blah, blah), we were treated to a movie. it is really rare in medical school that we get to watch anything that doesn't involve cells dividing or cells swimming around and eating other cells so this was a real treat. it even has WORDS and was produced by our government in 1938. i know it's long - just try the first few minutes to get the idea.