Future doctors of America? Perhaps, but our "medical" exercise wasn't really about the operations at all. In fact, we began our day by talking about Dr. Benjamin Rush, a man who not only trained Meriwether Lewis for his expedition to the Pacific, but a man who also contributed to the medical and psychology fields and who signed the Declaration of Independence
| After hearing about Yellow Fever and Smallpox, students donned scrubs and masks to face the operating tables themselves, trying everything possible and using their extensive training to save their patients from impending doom, performing transplants, and stitching them up as quickly as possible. Special effects and a little costuming made the experience come to life throughout. | |
We're really mixing things up in Room 404 these days. Not only did we discuss history and science with all the talk about Dr. Rush, but the patients all tended to have medical needs based on inefficient math and grammar intake. Students had to find the correct "organs" to "stitch" onto the patients in order to call each operation a success.
As the chief surgeon, it fell upon me to check my apprentices' work and put corrective bandages on problems that required correction.
As the chief surgeon, it fell upon me to check my apprentices' work and put corrective bandages on problems that required correction.
