Seeing our mortality - and morbidity - in nursing home rounds

Article Abstract:

Doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and treatments can sometimes prolong the lives of patients who otherwise might die more peacefully if left alone. Mabel C., a nursing home patient, received cracked ribs, a broken arm, a grande mal seizure, a bruised chest and a collapsed lung while being resuscitated from heart failure. Twenty-four hours, she died despite the many measures taken to keep her alive. Fewer life-saving measures would have allowed her to die peacefully.

Health aspects, Nursing home patients

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In memory and praise for lessons taught by a cadaver

Article Abstract:

Dissection of human cadavers should remain an integral part of the training of medical students. The experience of dissecting a cadaver teaches a medical student respect for the human body and acquaints the student with the intricacies of human anatomy. Intimate knowledge of how the human body is designed and appears, learned from a cadaver, can be used in practice when evaluating medical images such as magnetic resonance images or computerized tomography images.

Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Curricula, Study and teaching, Medical education, Human dissection

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