Bunny Surgery , Tired Hamsters, and Depressed Rats

In an effort to modernize the practice of surgery and save on the costs of cadavers, our beloved school has developed an online surgery simulator. This technology represents a significant improvement over the recently replaced Operation game by Milton-Bradley which students before my class have used with only moderate success. 32% of the class had failed Funny Bone Removal 101. To try the simulator click here: SAVE MY BUNNY

Hopefully the money saved will go toward the purchase of younger more robust hamsters. It seems that the hamsters that our school uses to turn the big electricity generator wheel have become "shagged out" thus leading to several power outages on campus.

Other than occasional darkness, school is going pretty well this semester. In Pharmacology we are reviewing the nervous system and learning neuropharmacology it's pretty riveting stuff. We learned about the effects of Riserpine; a drug that blocks a blah blah blah .... but we did hear about a rat who was given this drug and sat very still, was depressed, and shat excessively. I'll take "Things I never thought I hear about in Medical School for $400, Alex"
(I suspect if reincarnation exists, that most of those lab rats held Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees in a former life)

The joys of medical school never end!