Montross Quotes
Montross describes the first day, when she gets the bone box. She thinks while she is walking with the box; “This used to be a person. I am carrying parts of a person in this box, and no one knows it. On the street, girls compliment one another’s shoes, and a man in his twenties sings Dylan n the curb for quarters.” (9) Montross has begun her journey to becoming a doctor. She first needs to learn about all the different bones in the body. I feel that as I read this passage about the bone box and all the bones, I could really picture all the bones in front of me. Montross recalls, “Inside is a whole skull, at once eerie and beautiful. On close inspection the individual bones on the skull are visible, and their lines are fluid and lovely—the
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She says, "I have heard jokes about anatomy groups naming their cadavers 'Woody.' At the moment it is hard for me to picture--I feel far from being able to joke about any of this." (18) She feels like seeing people joking about their cadavers isn't something you should do on the first day in the lab. Montross also feels really overwhelmed about everything in the lab and ends up forgetting to get her name tag. I wouldn't go around joking about a cadaver the first day I was in the lab, I don't think I could ever joke around about a cadaver. Christine describes what the heart looks like in the body now that the lungs and ribs are gone; "The heart muscle itself does not look so much different from chicken--a little stiffer and grayer, perhaps--so, as we attempt to clear out the blood and embalming fluid, we cannot tell the difference between the flesh and the blood." (33) Her group feels like their tearing into this woman's heart. With this description, I feel like I was part of her group as the tried to get the blood out of the heart without tearing too much of the heart
She says, "I have heard jokes about anatomy groups naming their cadavers 'Woody.' At the moment it is hard for me to picture--I feel far from being able to joke about any of this." (18) She feels like seeing people joking about their cadavers isn't something you should do on the first day in the lab. Montross also feels really overwhelmed about everything in the lab and ends up forgetting to get her name tag. I wouldn't go around joking about a cadaver the first day I was in the lab, I don't think I could ever joke around about a cadaver. Christine describes what the heart looks like in the body now that the lungs and ribs are gone; "The heart muscle itself does not look so much different from chicken--a little stiffer and grayer, perhaps--so, as we attempt to clear out the blood and embalming fluid, we cannot tell the difference between the flesh and the blood." (33) Her group feels like their tearing into this woman's heart. With this description, I feel like I was part of her group as the tried to get the blood out of the heart without tearing too much of the heart