I am about to write about this movie with the eyes of a medical student. I will use my critical eye pointing out mistakes and stupid things, but I say I did enjoy this movie!
Im studying in Hungary and of course the medical curriculum is different everywhere so note that I compare things to my own experience, and certain things may be different in the USA.
1. There is the scene where the two assistants come in with the body, drinking coke and a pack of McDo on the body. This is not real, this is a laic imagination about a pathologists view. There is no problem with listening to music or talking about anything possible (including eating, sex, ...) during dissection, but eating Is a problem because it is dangerous. Everybody can understand that. Who does not, gets sick real soon. Anyway the hygienic rules are not so strict in this hospital. They wear mantle and gloves or just pop in, in their green suit they wear all day. The latter is not possible. We wear mantle, gloves and extra mantle we throw away after dissection and gloves on your shoe (you can imagine the whole corridor bloody in footprints)
2. You are not put in deep water in first year. You see bones first, then an arm or leg, then viscera. In third year you have pathology where is the first time you see a body not in formalin, and who died some day ago. In pathology we always know everything about the patient. We have his whole medical documentation including name, age, address, everything. And homicides, suicides does not get to pathology or anatomy classes the get to forensic pathology, where are no first years.
3. They dissected that body - I dunno - 2 or 3 days and just opened the chest. It is a 2 minutes work for a professional and 5 for somebody who never did it. A complete dissection takes about 2 hours long.
4. The funniest thing is the formalin tank!! I must say I have seen nothing like that, we have tanks like that but they are not so deep and organs are contained and there is no need to plunge in them, just a long glove if you want something. So I can barely imagine a tank designed so that it is hard to get a corpse out and that stick gets stuck in it. And when they jump in... I couldn't but laugh!!! I couldn't get a corpse out I surely wouldn't jump in, i would get the corpses out one by one. And even if I had a bath in formalin my eyes and mouth would ache like very much and I wouldn't be able to open it let alone kiss anybody. (and would possibly die of cancer)
5. There is no so many blood in a many year old, dissected body that you can draw bloody line on the hallway.
6. (not medical) Its also funny when our heroine goes for her dead fellow. Drags the book from under his all- in-blood head and disappears nobody noticing or stopping her.
7. Most important!! Nobody reads atlas of anatomy before going to bed. Not because of bad dreams, but because you've studied enough all day and you want something else.
These are what I remembered... I repeat again it was an enjoyable movie for me, and the music was just Wonderful!
Im studying in Hungary and of course the medical curriculum is different everywhere so note that I compare things to my own experience, and certain things may be different in the USA.
1. There is the scene where the two assistants come in with the body, drinking coke and a pack of McDo on the body. This is not real, this is a laic imagination about a pathologists view. There is no problem with listening to music or talking about anything possible (including eating, sex, ...) during dissection, but eating Is a problem because it is dangerous. Everybody can understand that. Who does not, gets sick real soon. Anyway the hygienic rules are not so strict in this hospital. They wear mantle and gloves or just pop in, in their green suit they wear all day. The latter is not possible. We wear mantle, gloves and extra mantle we throw away after dissection and gloves on your shoe (you can imagine the whole corridor bloody in footprints)
2. You are not put in deep water in first year. You see bones first, then an arm or leg, then viscera. In third year you have pathology where is the first time you see a body not in formalin, and who died some day ago. In pathology we always know everything about the patient. We have his whole medical documentation including name, age, address, everything. And homicides, suicides does not get to pathology or anatomy classes the get to forensic pathology, where are no first years.
3. They dissected that body - I dunno - 2 or 3 days and just opened the chest. It is a 2 minutes work for a professional and 5 for somebody who never did it. A complete dissection takes about 2 hours long.
4. The funniest thing is the formalin tank!! I must say I have seen nothing like that, we have tanks like that but they are not so deep and organs are contained and there is no need to plunge in them, just a long glove if you want something. So I can barely imagine a tank designed so that it is hard to get a corpse out and that stick gets stuck in it. And when they jump in... I couldn't but laugh!!! I couldn't get a corpse out I surely wouldn't jump in, i would get the corpses out one by one. And even if I had a bath in formalin my eyes and mouth would ache like very much and I wouldn't be able to open it let alone kiss anybody. (and would possibly die of cancer)
5. There is no so many blood in a many year old, dissected body that you can draw bloody line on the hallway.
6. (not medical) Its also funny when our heroine goes for her dead fellow. Drags the book from under his all- in-blood head and disappears nobody noticing or stopping her.
7. Most important!! Nobody reads atlas of anatomy before going to bed. Not because of bad dreams, but because you've studied enough all day and you want something else.
These are what I remembered... I repeat again it was an enjoyable movie for me, and the music was just Wonderful!