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To: scion who wrote (782)12/1/2002 11:07:24 PM
From: scion  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1136
 
The "doctor" will see you now...

The patient at autopsy is being examined. This is not a preserved medical school cadaver. There is actually blood in the patient’s arteries, not formalin. The bowels are filled with shit, the bladder is filled with piss and the stomach is filled with the undigested remains of the patient’s last meal. In most cases, the body is still warm.

I recall walking down the halls of the Cut and Strut Community Hospital and seeing patients being wheeled from one department to another for a barrage of tests. It wasn’t until I had just removed, and placed on a dissecting board, the patient’s guts, that I would recognize the patient’s face as being one of those I saw being wheeled to and fro’ earlier in the day.



To: scion who wrote (782)12/1/2002 11:32:29 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1136
 
This isn't clear to me:

Once you’ve found it, and after ligating the carotid arteries, you simply make an incision, cutting all the way through to the cervical vertebrae.

Why would one need a ligature for the carotid arteries? I thought all body fluids were drained first, and also that once a corpse is a corpse, it doesn't bleed freely anymore.

I also don't understand why, if your intention was to remove the viscera, you'd start by cutting around the neck, front to back.