Quotable Quotes

Professor: Are there any patients in which you would not use a blood pressure cuff on the arm?
Student: Amputees.

The answer was mainly women who had a masectomy due to lymphadema and hemodialysis patients with vascular grafts.
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The professor who gave the lecture on the pelvis was so great. She not only explained the anatomy really clearly, but also threw in random jokes, as if it were a stand-up comedy set. At the end, she said, "So...yesterday, I had some problems with urination and I called the urology department here. I got their answering machine which said, 'Can you hold?'"
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In anatomy, we were looking at a prosection of the pelvis. (A prosection is a specific part of the cadaver pre-dissected by anatomy faculty to show things that might be hard to find). The problem is that a prosection is an isolated body part removed from the whole body. The second-year student explaining this said, "Sometimes, you can't tell what part of the body the prosection is from, and that can be a pain in the butt," as he pointed to prosection of the pelvis we were examining.