One way to make pathology more exciting (than it already is)

March 1, 2008

(Note: Release date is not last November. It’s this April, right around Boards season.)

Is anyone else as perversely excited about this movie as I am? Makes you think twice about those bookish types who go into pathology.

Other thoughts:

  • We actually had a pretty gruesome lecture last week from a forensic pathologist. It was, simultaneously, the most horrific and the most hilarious lecture ever — he kept cracking these morbid jokes (”I have a colleague who calls these cases no-brainers”) and making us laugh despite ourselves.
  • Sure, a pathologist might be able to muddle with the autopsy findings — but how will they fool the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies? Especially those from an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit?
  • When it comes to movies, you can definitely get more disturbing than this. I could never stomach Funny Games, for example. Maybe it’s the medical setting that makes this more palatable.
  • Milo’s character is “Dr. Gray.” As in “Gray’s Anatomy.” Just thought I’d point that out. (But if they make one McDreamy joke I’m asking for my money back.)

OK, enough blabber from me — go watch the trailer.

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