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New year, new shoes!
New year, new shoes. Silver glitter Doc Martens. That’s how we’re gonna roll in 2019, Vivsters!
I was pretty stoked to find these boots in a shoe shop in Canberra in December. Last time I went to a Docs shop they were thrilled to be able to offer me a choice of black or blue *yawn*
My mum says I’m going to cry the first time I spill blood on them – and she might be right – but I promised Mr Vivi I would try and be more cheerful on the way to work in the mornings if I had them on my feet. Miss Vivi is NOT a morning person!
It’s the first day back at school and lots of you will have new shoes. Show us what you’ve got, Vivsters!
This entry was posted on January 29. 2019 by Miss Vivi
A WTF is that moment in the pluck bucket
Switch to virtual dissections, they said!
It’ll be fine, they said!
It’s all fun and games until someone loses a kidney. Even I had a WTF is that moment in the pluck bucket yesterday – after 20 years of looking at them.
This article about a surgeon that mistook a kidney for a tumour in a patient and removed it popped up in my Facebook feed today. You can read the full story here. I don’t know how or where the surgeon was educated, but I do often hear from those in the classroom that virtual is the way of the future. However – that isn’t what I hear from actual health care professionals. The support for dissection from the people you are relying on when you are sick don’t support virtual dissection as the only tool for learning gross anatomy.
We genuinely are all unique in our own ways and I want a doctor that has had some actual meat in their hands before they get to mine. How about you????
If we don’t keep the community generally educated in science then the need for science education becomes less valued by society. That can lead to mistakes like this happening and that can have very real consequences for real people and their families.
So I’m setting you a challenge. Do a virtual dissection online. Do the best one you can get Google to give you. Do it as many times as you like. Then dissect the real thing. I guarantee you that you will find it easier than going in without any pre-study at all, but I also guarantee you that you will have moments when you think “hang on, what am I looking at here?” and have to work a bit harder to get the full picture.
Now put yourself in the shoes of your average kid in Junior Science. They deserve a fighting chance at understanding their bodies properly so they can make good decisions later in life – especially if they find themselves hanging over you with a scalpel in their hand one day.
This entry was posted on November 27. 2018 by Miss Vivi
The story of us
It’s been a while since we had these family photos taken but I don’t think we look too different. A few more dissections under our belts. Probably not enough walks to satisfy the Hound. It’s certainly been an exciting couple of years, anyway!
This entry was posted on September 27. 2018 by Miss Vivi
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