A review by raven_morgan
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross

4.0

Once upon a time, I wanted to be a doctor. That didn't happen, and I ended up in genetics instead, but spent a year of my undergrad work studying human anatomy. We never dissected any human cadavers, but we worked a lot with specimens that the techs had dissected. Reading this, I kept on having a visceral memory of how, when we walked out of the anatomy labs, everything we owned smelled like formalin.

Vividly written and eye-opening to a lot of the emotional and psychological stuff that people go through during medical training.