Daily Joke: How a Clever Professor Taught Medical Students the Importance of Observation

First-year medical students were attending their very first anatomy lesson with an actual cadaver.

They gathered around the operating table where the body lay under a white sheet.

The professor began by saying, “In medicine, there are two essential qualities every doctor must have. The first is that nothing about the human body should disgust you.”

He then pulled back the sheet, inserted his finger into the cadaver’s anus, removed it, and placed the finger in his mouth.

“Now do exactly as I did,” he instructed. Horrified, the students hesitated, but one by one they reluctantly repeated the action.

After everyone finished, the professor addressed the class again: “The second essential quality is observation. I put my middle finger in, but I sucked on my index finger. Pay attention details matter.”