• Question: Do you ever get grossed out?

    Asked by bellk19 to Paul, Simon, Selen, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 9 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-225581.
    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 9 Nov 2019: last edited 10 Nov 2019 8:27 am

      Ha! I love this question!
      Not anymore. It takes a lot (and I mean a LOT!) to gross me out now. When you’ve seen stuff like an arrow in the eye, somebody’s neck and shoulder removed, a whole leg or arm, the entire length of a large intestine or a body that’s been in the sea for several weeks…you get used to it pretty quick.
      The topic of conversation when doing a dissection always seems to come back to food – no idea why….

    • Photo: Nawapat Kaweeyanun

      Nawapat Kaweeyanun answered on 16 Nov 2019:

      Luckily physics research is not very gross. But in school I remembered dissecting a pig’s eye and I stuck my knife in too hard that the eye explodes black fluid everywhere including my clothes. Ew!

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 17 Nov 2019:

      My stomach is far stronger now than it used to be that’s for sure, but there are still a few things that get to me…maggots being one of them! Fortunately, as well as being exposed to lots of gruesome images via my degree programme, I also see nasty injuries at work every weekend so I’m becoming conditioned to them!

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