I Am So Mad!!

[popcornbird]

They do disect humans actually. Doctors do.........and they need to. Imagine a doctor doing surgery without actually experimenting on an animal/human beforehand. They need to cut them open to learn.......there's just no way out. BUT.............I think its absolutely unneccessary in school. Its important for students in the medical field, in college, going to be doctors, but why should an average school kid have to disect? Why should a kid that's going to be a computer science, etc. major in the future need to disect animals? I think disection should be left for college, depending on what field a student is going into.

Personally, I *hate* disections..........absolutely makes me cringe. I've done a frog, and a cow's eye, but when they brought a cat, I refused to do it. I just refused.........I said I won't. They were fine with it and let me go.

My mom majored in microbiology, so she had to disect just about everything..........frogs, cats, rabbits, all those cute furries. She said she hated it, but because it was her major, she had to.

I'm going to tell a story..........that if you don't have the heart to read, stop right here. Just a warning for the more sensitive folks.

My friend told me when her aunt was going in the medical field to become a doctor, she had to disect all sorts of animals. She told me at the end of the 2nd year, they called them in for a test. A test to determine if they had the heart, mind, and capability to actually become a doctor. They called the students in, and brought the most precious dog...........a white fluffy gorgeous dog. She said it was the most beautiful dog her aunt had ever seen. Anyway, the teachers told the students.......if they could stand to see the dog killed, opened, and worked on, they should stay. If they can't, leave the class and forget about being a doctor. Half the class left. Her aunt stayed.
Anyway, they killed the poor dog somehow.........think put him to sleep, and then began cutting him open, to study his organs and body parts and all that stuff. Her aunt stayed, she worked with it and finished. After completing the disection, she fainted. Really, she just couldn't take it. I don't think I would've gone as far to let myself faint. I would've run out and dropped the becoming a doctor future. Anyway, she said when she finally awoke, she came home crying, and crying and crying. Then she fainted again. It was so hard on her. Its not an easy thing. Really painful, especially for an animal lover. Its not only killing the animal, but its messing around with its organs and stuff that I cannot take. I just can't see that for hours straight you know. I can't. Her aunt dropped out of the medical field, because they told her this was a test if they could take it...........and a human was next. She said no way, bye, and forgot about it.

My uncle's a doctor too, and he tells me of how many humans he's had to disect. Grosses me out. Bleh.