Subject: First Year Students
First-year students at Med School were receiving their first anatomy
class with a real dead human body. They all gathered around the surgery
table with the body covered with a white sheet. The professor began the
lecture by telling them, “In medicine, it is necessary to possess two
important qualities as a doctor: The first is that you must not be
disgusted by anything involving the human body.”
To illustrate, he pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the anus of
the corpse, withdrew it, and stuck it in his mouth.
“Go ahead and do the same thing,” he told his students. The students
freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took turns
sticking a finger in the butt of the dead body and sucking on it.
When everyone finished, the professor looked at them and said “The
second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my middle
finger and sucked on my index finger. Now learn to pay attention”.