(Yes, another med school story...sorry my blog has been so uni-dimensional lately.)
Today was a much anticipated day in gross anatomy...hemisection of our cadavers. We cut Carl in half (right above the iliac crests), then we cut his lower half longitudinally. So now Carl is 3 sections: a torso, right leg, and left leg. At first I was quite upset that we had to cut poor Carl up into pieces, but after seeing all the cool stuff in his pelvis, I now have accepted it and moved on.
Carl has been a great cadaver for us...perfect heart, huge muscles, great internal organs...just the total package. One of the cadavers right next to us has been a source of much amusement throughout the semester. The guys find it hilarious, the girls are disturbed by it. He was embalmed with an erection, and no matter how hard they try to get it to lay down, it won't. They have covered it with a rag thus far, creating a tent over his pelvic region. Well today, as they were cutting his lower limb/pelvis in half, they were to cut straight down the middle of the penis, that way we could see the urethra, corpora cavernosa, corpus spongiosum, etc. Well much to their surprise, they found two longitudinal white plastic tubes in his penis. That's right guys: penile implants. Needless to say, he stole the show for the day in lab.
One of our professors said that while that was amusing, it was not as shocking as what they found in a cadaver a few years back. While a group was dissecting the scrotum, they found an odd object in the testicles. They went to get a professor to ask what it was, thinking it could be a tumor, but when Dr. Brueckner came to the table to exam it, they quickly realized that it was not cancerous. As she was feeling it to try to decipher the origin of this oddity, she squeezed it and the penis went straight up into an erect position. He had a pump up erection device, just like the Reeboks of the early 90's.
Apparently girls aren't the only ones getting implants these days. But to the guys - there are alternatives. Viagra anyone?
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5 comments:
OOOOOOO my gosh.
WOW! This puts our internships "fun" to end - we simply had a running tally of accidentally seeing men's balls in the hospital!
speechless
you're a good blogger
Really??? who donates their body to scientific research when they know they've got a penial implant? i hope that he did it on purpose and just had an amazing sense of humor! kinda weird and twisted...but amazing :)
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