a medical student should know......

> > First-year students at Med 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 2 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."