Cadavers give docs leg up in training
Reincarnated dissection is alive at Med School
Jennifer Giltnane MED '08 GRD '08 never knew Myrtle, but she knew Myrtle's hands. The calluses, the wrinkles, the converging lines of head and life -- Giltnane knew them all intimately because she took them apart.
Until the moment when Giltnane unwrapped the hands, her cadaver had seemed like a cold, slightly repulsive body on a metal table, the head veiled under a sheet. But the hands sent a different message, an inescapable story of an individual. It was like a handshake Giltnane would never forget.
"Hands are such a personal thing," she said. "It really hit me that...
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