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introduction
"Without anatomy, there is no medicine."
As a doctor, especially a surgeon, you need to have a lot of clinical experience. And doctors, the initial exercises cannot be directly experimented on patients.
Therefore, human specimens are necessary for doctors to seek medical treatment. In addition to the common cremation and burial, the fate of death is made into an adult specimen after voluntary donation.
However, human specimens need to be preserved after special treatment of corpses, and this part of the people who handle corpses is what we want to introduce here.
Here is an introduction to a person who has been engaged in human specimen making for fifteen years, Wang Yao.
According to Wang Yao, let's look at the process of making human specimens and what chilling things happen in them.
1. Change careers
When Wang Yao was engaged in human specimen production, he also went through a mental struggle. At the beginning, Wang Yao also maintained a respectful attitude towards this profession like ordinary people.
On the one hand, human specimen makers have to deal with human corpses, and it is human instinct to have fear of similar corpses, so people who can engage in this industry must have a strong enough psychological quality.
On the other hand, taxidermists are still an industry that is not understood by most people, and once you work as a taxidermist, it means that you will no longer have many friends, and even the opportunity to shake hands with people will be lost.
Although clinical medical research can teach certain theoretical experience by relying on books, the real field operation still needs to be supported by physical objects. Therefore, human specimens have become an essential item for teaching in medical schools.
However, the work of making human specimens is really difficult to recruit, and sometimes even if you manage to recruit people, you can't last for a few days.
The Guardian Hall of West China College of Sichuan University is a place where students stay away, and it is also where Wang Yao later worked. It is like a crime scene in a novel, and there is a terrifying atmosphere all year round.
Guardian Hall has been closed for a long time, and the people outside do not know what the people inside are doing, but you can imagine the picture, and at the same time you can smell the special smell inside, and when passing by, you also cover your mouth and nose and leave quickly.
Wang Yao's original job was only a floor manager in the vascular department of West China Hospital, and his salary was not high, and his life was tight and tight. When people reach middle age, there are old and young. Children need to go to school, elderly parents need money to treat diseases, and Wang Yao's salary is meagre.
Therefore, in ordinary life, I will always save money and hope to improve the living standards of my family. At the same time, he is also studying hard and hopes to one day develop in other directions in the hospital. He is a diligent and responsible person.
In 2008, the hospital sent an invitation to Wang Yao, asking Wang Yao to go to Huaxi Jiade Hall to engage in human specimen production, and the treatment was excellent.
The reason why the hospital invited Wang Yao stemmed from his daily needs of living a tight life and his serious and responsible work attitude. Subsequent proof showed that the hospital did not look at the wrong person.
On the one hand, this job does not have a generous remuneration, and ordinary people will not be willing; On the other hand, this job does require someone with strong conviction and a strong heart.
Before officially starting work, the senior of the hospital took him to train for nearly two months. During this period, he was not only taught the correct operation steps when facing the corpse, but also constantly provided him with psychological counseling to improve his psychological endurance.
After two months of training, Wang Yao felt that he could overcome his fears, but when he faced death, it was different from what he imagined.
Second, Wang Yao engaged in human specimen production for the first time
However, the first time he faced a real corpse, Wang Yao's palms were still full of cold sweat, and his heart couldn't help but accelerate and pound, holding his breath and unable to speak.
The corpse that Wang Yao faced for the first time was a highly destructive and difficult corpse. It was a corpse that had been completely unrecognizable and almost completely festered, and the corpse was surrounded by maggots and emitted a disgusting corpse stench.
For such corpses, only bone extraction can be carried out to make adult bone specimens.
In the first step, Wang Yao needs to endure his body's instinctive fear and the nausea brought about by it. This picture is like an anatomist in a TV series, wearing a white coat, leather gloves, fully armed, and the fear in his heart is afraid that only the parties know it!
In the second step, Wang Yao officially began to work. He first slowly cut an opening from the top of the corpse's skull with a bone saw that specialized in sawing bones, and then removed the spinal cord and muscle tissue from the bone. At this time, the dissection table next to it was already piled up with a lot of human tissue, and at the same time emitted an indescribable smell.
While operating, Wang Yao emptied his brain with his thoughts, trying not to think of some strange ideas.
After slowly cleaning up the carrion on the surface of the corpse, the hard muscle tissue peeled off, and Wang Yao swung his knife again to cut the side of the hard muscle tissue, so that the bones inside could be directly seen. This process is equivalent to deboning.
Wang Yao and the senior masters were busy for a while, only then did they separate the corpse bones, peel off the outer layer of flesh, and completely obtain the human bones they wanted.
The third step is to boil the bones. This is a visually impactful picture, Wang Yao said that after doing that step, he did not dare to eat bone broth for a long time, and he instinctively felt sick to his stomach when he saw bone broth.
Boiled bones, people need to watch, because the heat is not easy to grasp, the time is short, and the texture is not enough; Over time, it is easy to crisp and crush the bones. Wang Yao watched the human bones being boiled in it so abruptly. The crispy bones are gone. Generally, boiled bones are slowly cooked over low heat for at least three days and no more than 5 days, so that the boiled human bones are the most suitable for specimens.
For about 4 days, when the soft and hard texture of the bones is almost the same, take the bones out, use tongs to thoroughly scrape off the remaining floating on the surface, and then soak the boiled bones in acetone.
In this way, a human bone specimen can be considered made.
After Wang Yao engaged in this industry, he usually had no rest days. Because, just like firefighters and police, once they receive a call, they must leave immediately, and there is no time delay.
After death, if not immediately disposed of, people will decay as quickly as things are broken, and at the same time, the internal organs of the human body are also undergoing material changes, resulting in a suffocating corpse smell. Therefore, the dissection should be made sooner rather than later, and must be completed as soon as possible within 8 hours.
The sacrifice of normal work and rest time is only a small sacrifice in this industry, and he must overcome the fear that ordinary people cannot overcome.
At the same time, formalin liquid soaked in corpses has a pungent and unpleasant odor, which is also a double stimulation of human physiology and psychology.
Once, while handling a specimen, Wang Yao accidentally dripped formalin liquid onto his clothes, which he then threw away. But the smell on the clothes seems to be stained on the body, and you can't wash it off when you take a bath.
Later, washing hands also became a compulsive act of his own. Every time he left the workbench, Wang Yao always washed his hands repeatedly with hand sanitizer, even if his hands turned white.
However, despite washing his hands in this way, Wang Yao's relatives and friends were no longer willing to shake his hand when they knew that he was engaged in such a business, and refused even a symbolic touch. After working in this industry, I spend every day with corpses, and I have few friends and relatives except for my colleagues.
Second, people and corpses coexist
When a person faces a corpse, Wang Yao will always be extra careful. However, strange things are also at this time.
One day, the body of an old man was transported into the specimen room, and Wang Yao was the only one in the room. He was concentrating on preparing his tools, and it was quiet all around. Suddenly, he heard the sound of the Buddhist Great Compassion Mantra, which sounded deep and weak. Wang Yao's heart tightened, and he looked around, only he was alone and a corpse that could not speak.
So he approached the corpse, and the sound came from the wrapped corpse. It's too scary, it's not a fraudulent corpse, Wang Yao felt a sigh in his heart. This sudden music and this special environment is undoubtedly a horror film in film and television dramas.
Although fearful, reason prevails over fear. Wang Yao shrunk his head, carefully unzipped the leather coat wrapped in the corpse, and found a small radio hanging from the old man's chest. Wang Yao exhaled a long breath, it turned out that he scared himself, he thought in his heart, there will be no ghosts, and it is not the first time that he touches the corpse.
It's just that suddenly such a small accident is probably frightening to rest on other people, and if others are afraid that it will be difficult to continue this work.
Wang Yao also had a frightening experience at work.
Once, the same person was in the operation room, he had his back to the corpse and was working directly against the operation table. Suddenly, someone seemed to be patted on the back. He broke out in a cold sweat, and when he turned around, it was the corpse's hand that reached over and hit his back.
His legs were soft, cold sweat broke out, and he quickly ran out, which was the manifestation of the corpse, and the corpse's hand reached out on its own.
Wang Yao, who ran out, also felt a sigh in his heart, at this time, he calmed down a little, but he still felt a chill in his back. He carefully recalled what had just happened, and from a scientific point of view, a corpse is an object that can never speak or move, and there must be a reason for it.
I saw Wang Yao stomp his foot and muttered in his mouth: "It's formalin who put too much."
Formalin is a solution to soak the corpse, and if too much is poured, it will cause the corpse to puff, which causes the corpse's arm to move along the console. In addition, at the beginning, I did not put the arm of the corpse properly out of negligence, which caused the phenomenon of arm movement.
Many supernatural events that occur in the operation room, in addition to operation errors, many times the supernatural phenomena are mostly out of their own fear. Therefore, after a long time, Wang Yao was no longer strange, although he was scared at that time.
3. General teachers
Human fear and distaste for the corpses of the same kind is an innate nature, but there are always people who go against this instinct and do this awesome job.
Taxidermist is a sacred and noble profession that is linked to two awesome identities, a "body donor" before death and a "general teacher" after death.
After experiencing many human specimen productions, Wang Yao quickly integrated into this identity, but the change in his mind began with a donation witnessed by Wang Yao.
Once, a six-year-old girl died unexpectedly in the hospital, and her family was heartbroken, so in order to continue the little girl's life, they chose to donate her liver free of charge.
Wang Yao was touched a lot when he saw this scene, so he paid attention to where the little girl's liver was eventually donated. Soon, a five-year-old child was matched within the hospital's system. This child was a person with congenital liver insufficiency, and the liver of the deceased little girl was successfully transplanted to another child after a two-hour operation.
The family of the five-year-old child is grateful for the donation of the little girl who died, and one life continues on to another.
It's an awesome and thought-provoking act, and a way of passing on life.
Wang Yao witnessed a cycle of life and the inheritance of life. The psychological impact this time was almost equivalent to his feelings when he performed human anatomy for the first time, and it also directly affected his subsequent attitude towards this work.
So, Wang Yao also went to register and applied for body donation, and accepted this profession from the bottom of his heart.
Overcoming incurable medical diseases one by one is inseparable from the donor. According to People's Daily, as of April 2021, the number of organ donations in China has reached 3.15 million.
Human specimens are an indispensable part of medical research and scientific progress. First, because the internal structure of the human body is complex, it is difficult to replace it with other manufactured models. Second, surgery is a matter related to human life, if the doctor has no practical practice and no clinical experience, an operation may change from saving people to harming people.
When doctors are students or internships, they must have real body models for field operations, and human specimens are necessary for medical students to study.
For individuals, some people believe that the donation of remains is an act that goes against the ancients' idea of entering the earth for safety, while others believe that it is a continuation and inheritance of life.
From a social point of view, body donation is like organ donation, which contributes to medicine after death. It is precisely because of these silent but selfless body donors that doctors have achieved rapid medical development time and time again.
In the medical profession, medical students generally refer to the specimen of the body as the "general teacher", and all students must close their eyes, put their hands together, and bow three times before conducting research to show respect for the body.
epilogue
For Wang Yao, this was originally just a job, a job for a certain life; And now, this is already a sense of life. He still continues this special job.
For the world's human body donors, it is both the end of their lives and the continuation of their lives.
The progress of medicine and the breakthrough of difficult diseases are inseparable from people like Wang Yao and those who donate remains.