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I work in a cancer research lab and I have to kill mice as well. Some are regular, healthy mice that I have to kill in order to extract a certain critical organ to harvest cells. Other mice, though, are injected with cancer cells that we've manipulated in order to track tumor development (after the cells have been manipulated). It's not pleasant work, to say the least, but I think people who have never done biological research don't understand that there really is no way to replicate a living system besides to use an animal model.

Anyway, where I'm going with this is that I had to do an assay recently that required that I kill the animal, chop off the limbs and extract cells. I remember that as I was working, I was writing a fan fiction of one of my favorite characters from a science fiction fandom in my mind. Except the character was in the place of the mouse and was being experimented on by aliens. I don't know if that's indicative of me empathizing with the mice, but I know that regardless, I don't regret what I do. Killing them is the most difficult part, but once they're dead, they're just a body and it's easy enough to do what needs to be done by that point.

People who try to shame you about it are pieces of shit.

you are disgusting and i hope you wind up on the other end of the scalpel some day

DA

Hahaha, yes. This anon is a terrible, awful, cancer researcher working for the good of humanity. Hopefully you never have need of their research, dumbass.

"modern medicine" is fraudulent anyway

Lol, yeah. Things were so much better pre modern medicine.

i agree, there's nothing wrong with you that can't be fixed with a punch to the face

Don't worry, with that attitude I'm pretty sure you won't have to worry about it much longer. Pretty sure you won't have to worry about anything much longer.

THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT

*LEECHES

Its mouth is looking at me and it is hungry. /shiver

That's what leech mouths look like? That's somewhat upsetting. Not sure what I expected though

It's not. that's a lamprey mouth.

Noodles, that is not a leech. That is a lamprey.

Leech suckers are far less dramatic.

Edited 2014-07-15 04:23 (UTC)

Actually, leeches are back in modern medicine! They are used when there's a lot of blood collecting in a small area (after limb surgery, amputations, head wounds etc.) and there's a major risk of clots forming but systemic anti-coagulants are not suitable for the patient. The doctor puts some nice clean leeches on the area, they inject their local anti-coagulant, remove the blood and then drop off when they're done.

I live in the same street as a medical leech breeder, and the tanks of leeches are pretty cool! They have to be kept in clean water so that all the mud and blood from other creatures is filtered out, so they're pretty hungry by the time they get to the patient.

That is interesting, I did not know that! (Also did you mean to reply to me, or Noodly?)

Let's not fogget about maggots (TW: maggots. The videos are for medical purpose, that is).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6_jVEMc8sg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmdKtSQs68k

Oh, honey. Without it, most of us involved in this thread would probably have died years ago, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Then again, maybe the thing you object to is the fact that so many of us do live?

I do hope I wind up on the other end of a scalpel some day. That means there will be enough of me left for a coroner to perform an autopsy. I'd hate to imagine what kind of end I would meet such that an autopsy wouldn't be possible.

And considering both organ donors and people who donate their bodies to science "wind up on the other end of the scalpel," I think it's a particularly honorable position to be in personally.

Of course, the funny thing is, I don't even use a scalpel in my dissections -- just forceps and dissection scissors. But I wouldn't expect you to know that.

Nice comeback. :-)

How is wishing the horrible thing you say you hate on another person supposed to help??

Thank you for your contribution to saving human lives.

Me too, OP! Probably not quite as high up as you do it though, it was just my summer internship job before med school. We did get some big ole tumors. Probably was a mercy putting them down at that point. One of our healthy rats actually got loose and ran off at one point. We found it dead a week later behind the coke machine. Apparently biologists don't drop a lot of crumbs.

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