Yup, that's right.
I bet the students were glad they were behind the glass then. They were all talking about it on the bus a couple of months back when they were filming it as they filmed it at my college. Wish i'd been able to see it, but it was for vet students only.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:23, 1 reply, 17 years ago)

Oh, that's a shame.
Mind you, I guess that if you where there you'd have to have dealt with the smell and sights and such. And I guess they don't often get an elephant to carve up, so it was probably only open to vet students because of the rareness of the oppurtunity and they figured that vet students would be a lot less likely to get queasy and throw up while the camera was on them or something.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:29, Reply)

Well we have cows and other smelly beasts on site and they rather smell, so yeah we're used to it
Funnily enough, it tends to be vet students who throw up or faint when they're on placement, rather than work experience or new nurses.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:31, Reply)

Huh. I wonder how many doctors throw up or pass out on their first dissections or whatever?
Seems a shame not to open up tickets to interested parties though. I kind of liked the live footage they had with it. I was just thinking, these things weigh 12 tonne and can run up to 20mph. I am NEVER pissing off an elephant!

Next week looks like a humpback whale or some form of whale. Should be even bigger!
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:39, Reply)

Well it's quite different cutting up a dead animal to a live one as everything's moving and juices spilling and stuff
their first dissections would be on dead things, so I'd imagine not that many. I'd study to be a vet if I could just do surgical stuff, but that wont happen, so I'm happy being a nurse instead as we get to do quite a lot of surgical procedures.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 22:42, Reply)