Dissecting a human body is messy, smelly, and expensive.

In fact, more medical schools are resorting to so-called “virtual” gross anatomy, using sophisticated imaging and computer programs.

This is a mistake, says psychiatry resident Christine Montross, in a NY Times op-ed. And she has a point.

“Someday, [doctors] need to keep their cool when a baby is lodged wrong in a mother’s birth canal; when a bone breaks Read more »