Every summer, a fresh crop of physicians enters the workforce. Overnight, trainees begin new roles and take on new responsibilities. You could imagine that we transition gracefully, like caterpillars turned butterflies, wings beating with effortless aerodynamics upon emerging from the chrysalis. Truthfully, we are more akin to baby birds, pushed off a branch and made […]
Pranoti Hiremath
About Pranoti Hiremath
Pranoti Hiremath grew up in Seattle, planned to major in English, instead became a bioengineer, and is now in the midst of cardiology fellowship. She is interested in people’s stories, and want to find solutions by constructively breaking the rules.
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Anatomy: A Poem

May 3, 2019 | posted by Pranoti Hiremath | A Day in the Life |
Like many medical schools across the nation, mine taught its first-year anatomy course through dissection of human bodies. Donors of cadavers donate their bodies for the education of medical students, specifically for the anatomy dissection course. It seemed violent, grotesque and bizarre to cut open a preserved, very dead human body. The only way I […]