• Question: liv if i may call you that you wanted to be a doctor but after your first lecture you wanted to be in science what in that lecture changed your mind

    Asked by rythepie13 to Liv on 15 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Olivia Hibbitt answered on 15 Mar 2010:

      Hi rythiepie13,
      My lecture was an anatomy one. The lecturer was telling us about how 50 years ago the medical profession thought that bone was just a dead scaffold, until some awesome scientist came along and discovered cells, blood supply and active remodelling (which is how bones heal after breaks) and it changed everyones mind. That’s when I thought ‘I want to be doing that!’. I wanted to be the one discovering new treatments not just handing out exisiting ones. I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to not be able to treat someone because nobody had come up with a cure yet. ALSO the lectures were in the hospital and walking there through all the sick people and that horrible hospital smell gave me the heebies!!!

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