A few weeks ago, I went to an open day, which had a dissection room that inspired me to do Medicine even more. A lecturer gave a small talk and did a little quiz, in which there were three glass cases containing kidneys. However, not one of the kidneys looked alike, in fact it was only the first organ that looked anything like a kidney. I found it incredible that there could be such a huge range of things that could go wrong with one single part of the body. I also learnt that when you do look inside someone, it isn't always going to look like it does in the textbook! One of the specimens was so enormous and filled with air sacs that everyone in the room was sure it was a pair of lungs, however it was where two kidneys had joined together in the first stages of growth and become fused. The kidneys also had hundreds of cysts, making them much larger than normal, giving everyone the impression that they were lungs.
I found the demonstration very interesting, and it has really made me excited to get started!
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