It's interesting to hear about your background with human biology. I just read (as part of a big reading event) a historical fiction novel set in 1840s England about a woman who stumbles into being an anatomist due to ending up as the ward of an eccentric surgeon, and some reviews complained of excessive medical detail. I read James Herriot's books as a kid—while they're about veterinary practice, they do also contain the medical details, and those don't typically bother me much... but there are certain areas of human biology (neuroscience can be a major one) that have pretty much always made me at least a little anxious about my own functioning.
Personally I decided against going into medicine in large part because I didn't think I could manage cadaver dissection—the preservation chemicals bothered me when doing worms or frogs in school and I found it hard to distinguish different tissues. (And I didn't think I'd do well on the people side of things either, though in retrospect it absolutely is a grueling process and a stressful job)
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Date: 2022-08-01 02:32 pm (UTC)Personally I decided against going into medicine in large part because I didn't think I could manage cadaver dissection—the preservation chemicals bothered me when doing worms or frogs in school and I found it hard to distinguish different tissues. (And I didn't think I'd do well on the people side of things either, though in retrospect it absolutely is a grueling process and a stressful job)