First-year students at Medical School were receiving their
first anatomy class with a real dead human body. They all gathered around the
surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet.
The
professor started the class by telling them, “In medicine, it is necessary to
have two important qualities as a doctor: the first is that you not be disgusted
by anything involving the human body”
For
an example, the professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of
the corpse, withdrew it and stuck it in his mouth. Go ahead and do the same
thing, he told his students.
The
students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took turns
sticking a finger in the butt of the dead body and sucking on it. When everyone
finished, the professor looked at them and told them,
“The
second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my middle finger and
sucked on my index finger. Now learn to pay attention”
