Skin to skin

There is a lot of variability in the amount of dissection that gets done by the tech and, thus, the amount of dissection that you end up doing yourself. Today's tech was of the "minimalist" variety, so I was left to my own devices for the first time ever.

Back story:
So we have to do at least 50 cases in order to be eligible for the pathology boards, but in my program the techs pretty much just handed you organs to dissect. So while I'm supposed to be able to do the whole thing myself, I never really actually technically, well, did.

So what if it took me twice as long to do it by myself-- you do get the feeling that you haven't missed a thing-- not to mention the sense of accomplishment you get standing over a nice little pile of organs that you made all by yourself...