A cadaver gets under her skin

Friday, April 22, 2011 - 21:00 in Health & Medicine

A first-year medical student can't help but wonder while working on an anonymous donor — who was this man?We enter the gross anatomy lab at 8 a.m. and spend the next two-and-a-half hours palpating bodies, cutting through skin and subcutaneous fat, probing muscle layers and searching for nerves and blood vessels.

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