WHAT IT'S LIKE WORKING IN A MORGUE

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DISCLAIMER: I am just an assistant in the morgue. I am only speaking from experience. I did not mention any personal information about myself, colleagues, patients or their families.
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If you aspire to be an anatomical pathologist, you have some prerequisites. When you work in a hospital,you are very likely can be exposed to the morgue. The problem continues to be that science progresses with every loss of life. Some people claim that they have seen the spirit.

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Also, thank you kindly for being scientifically literate and recognizing that there's no such thing as the 'paranormal' or the 'supernatural'. Oh; and since you mentioned it, the term we use in English is 'corpse'.

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Hahah yes, I love ghosts and things in movies but I do not believe I could ever meet one in real life. And thank you for telling me the right term! :)

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@@JayneGothno one would refer to their loved one as a “corpse”. It’s a technical term but it’s also cold and revolting.. Referring to someone as “deceased” is perfectly accurate English. You might say “my father is deceased”. No one would say “my father is a CORPSE”. Dear me, I don’t know what this person is thinking by suggesting you call deceased people corpses!!! 😳

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@@LouciferFlump oh thank you, I honestly don’t know in what context to use what word. In Dutch we have one formal word that can be used for all situations, at work as well as with family. I do often say “your loved one” to family when referring to a deceased person though

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[@stefanmilicevic5322]

Hey Jayne, Thanks for the informative video. I find it fascinating to gain a perspective from someone who works in such an obscure job. I have two questions. Did working with deceased patients changed your perspective on the human body, its fragility, and its beauty? And the second question is, did you also work with formaldehyde, and if so, how was the experience?

[@JayneGoth]

Thank you! Those are very good questions. I suppose working with deceased people made me realise that people are quite fragile. In our morgue, all people who died had an illness. Sometimes even very young people, which can be difficult to see. It’s not always complicated illnesses, sometimes someone was just unlucky and got a simple infection on vacation and then they ended up at my work. It does motivate me to work in healthcare when I’m older, to help prevent or cure these things. I think this work also made me realise that the human body is something that we need to see as beautiful. Every body tells a story about a life, and everything that happened in that life. Every person has their insecurities about their body, but we should know that every body is beautiful in its own way because of the memories and life that it carries. And yes, I do work with formaldehyde a lot. In my experience, it’s difficult to work with. It makes my eyes burn so I have to step away a few metres every few minutes when working with it, and it feels bad to breathe in. You need to be very careful working with it. We usually use it to keep organs in so they stay “good”. Hope that answers your questions :)

[@stefanmilicevic5322]

@@JayneGoth Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the matter. What I find very fascinating is that we humans are at the same time so fragile but also so resilient. People have died just by falling on their head, but people have also survived falling from an airplane thousands of meters high. That's just crazy to me. I fully agree with your stance on beauty here. I think no matter how disfigured, there is still this sense of beauty a person has despite their scars and damage. I heard formaldehyde was pungent, but I didn't know it was that difficult to work with. Oh well, it does serve an important purpose, I guess, in the end. Anyways, thanks for your thorough reply. I appreciate it. Have a great day :)

[@JayneGoth]

Yes, human bodies can be so interesting. It keeps surprising me how they can handle some things so well, and other things not so well. Thank you for your insightful comment, have a wonderful day!

[@Feenix102]

Fascinating. In general terms, one thing that's always interested me about medicine in general is how do you choose what kind of doctor you want to be? I mean some people become GPs, some people specialise in things like neurology or oncology or cardiac medicine or surgery of various kinds etc - I would imagine that its down to what you have a feeling for, what your clinical interest is, but are you advised as well by tutors and stuff? A related question would be, have you decided what kind of medicine you would like to practice yourself at this point or does that come later (I know there's a huge amount of learning involved over many years, so I don't know if you would have had to make that decision yet)? Interesting to hear about morgue work - its something I have an interest in to an extent but which I know very little about. I've seen autopsies on TV (one of Gunther Von Hagens' series' was on over here years ago, for example), and what always strikes me about the process is first of all the respect that is given to the body of the person - its quite a unique...not relationship exactly but association that morgue workers often have with bodies from what I can tell and there is an emotional side to it I think, even though that wouldn't be your focus of course. Also, the way the body is designed is...breath taking to me. For one of the body's systems to exist is an incredible concept, leave alone that there are so many and that they don't just interact but do so gracefully for the most part - there is definitely an artistic quality to it I think. Anyway! I hope this finds you well and cheers for the post. :)

[@JayneGoth]

I think most people indeed choose to specialise in something that they just have a feeling for, or something they have a personal connection with. In the Netherlands, the last three years of medical school are internships / rotations where we experience many different medical specialties, probably like 20+, with some obligatory and some chosen by the student. Usually, this is the period where students realise what specialty they are most interested in. I personally want to become a psychiatrist (which is often confused for psychologist, but a psychiatrist is actually a medical doctor and a psychologist is not). Pathology is also something I’ve become interested in since I started working in the morgue. But the reason why I started studying medicine was because I originally wanted to become a psychiatrist, because some important people in my life are suffering from psychiatric disorders that have a huge impact on their life. My dream was always to be able to help people like them. But I still have 3 out of the 6 total years to go, so maybe I will change my mind and decide something else when I’m done with med school :) I totally agree with your view on the human body, it is fascinating indeed. In med school as well as in the morgue, I learn a lot about how complicated and incredibly smart a body is. It is crazy to me how often and how long bodies can function so well. There are so many complex systems and mechanisms behind all of it, it is insane how all of that can just exist and work so well. However, in med school I have also realised that because of these huge and complicated systems in a body, a lot can go wrong as well. Luckily we have good treatments for most things, and many more treatments will be created in the future. That is such an exciting part of the medical field! Thank you for your interesting comment!

[@Feenix102]

@JayneGoth You are welcome, Jayne - thank you for answering! Yes, psychiatry, as I understand it, is quite different from psychology in that they can diagnose certain conditions that psychology can't, and have knowledge of and the ability to prescribe drugs and use them in their work where as psychologists can't for the most part as well as having some knowledge of neurology and, given the training, probably all of medicine to an extent. Speaking of how the body can go wrong? Yes, most definitely - I have at least one neurological condition myself that affects my feet and legs, I went to the National Hospital in London to see a neurologist last week, which was fascinating (they think its some sort of cross between spasticity and dystonia, but they're doing some whole genome blood tests to try and find out what's up). I am also under a surgeon at the moment for a deformity which may have resulted from whatever is wrong with my legs, so that will be interesting to see what they come up with. And absolutely -the more complex a system is, the more it can go wrong (I believe there is even an equation that can be used to determine complexity against the likelihood of things going wrong, certainly complexity can be measured in computing in accordance with something called large Omicron notation - 1 is the most complex, I believe). But yeah, so, while I am certainly not a doctor, having gone through a lot of tests and stuff in recent years does give me a certain level of appreciation for the profession that I maybe wouldn't have otherwise had and its...I know its something I could never do (I probably have the intellect but not the type of mind that one would need), and I am grateful that there are those that can. :) Take care and good luck! x

[@JayneGoth]

You described the difference between psychology and psychiatry very well there! A lot of people still confuse them, even some doctors do. Neurology is a super interesting topic. I’m actually currently in a semester that is all about neurology, and I absolutely love it. It is also the most difficult medical subject I think, because a lot about the brain is still unknown. And obviously the brain is just a really complex organ. I’ve seen a lot of patients with similar symptoms as you. I happen to know someone who has cerebral palsy, which also results in spasticity in his leg and foot. I hope you will find out what it might be!

[@JayneGoth]

And thank you a lot, it’s so nice and motivating to know that you appreciate the profession so much! :)

[@Feenix102]

@@JayneGoth Thankyou. Yes, neurology is fascinating to me too - not just the brain but the nerve roots in the spine and the secondary nerves etc, its a very elegant system. Thing is, because we have nerves everywhere, I would imagine there is a MASSIVE amount to learn about it. As for my own condition? Yes, it seems to have puzzled a lot of the local neurologists. We have discussed cerebral palsy, but the consensus at the moment seems to be heading towards some variant of HSP - Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis - with a bilateral cavovarus deformity in both feet. Ive had blood work done against an HSP panel and it was negative, but of course the genome will be a less biased result and will hopefully show anything out of the ordinary. I had panels done for Spino-cerebellar ataxia and dystonia/Parkinsons as well, all of which were negative, but then they can't be 100% accurate by definition really. But yes - hopefully something will come of this, I have an MRI in London in the near future (my 6th) so that should tell them something too, I hope. Kind of Hickam's dictum and Occam's razor at the same time really, which...makes things interesting - the simplest explanation may be, in the end, that there is more than one issue at work. We shall see! :)

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