<p>A third-year Florida State University med student has his painting featured on the cover of Academic</a> Medicine - Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.</p>
<p>FSU Med student Jared Rich relates the inspiration for his art:
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<p>This Is the Place Where Death Delights to Help the Living</p>
<p>What better place to start than at the beginning? We begin our long path to becoming doctors in gross anatomy. It is our first class in medical school, and the cadavers that we dissect are often called our first patients. They are also called our silent teachers. We learn more from them than any professor's lecture or any picture in a textbook could ever teach us. Studying our cadavers is not like reading words on a page or looking at an image on a screen. It is actual interaction with human beings—human beings who generously donated their bodies so that we could begin to learn to be doctors.</p>
<p>I looked at my cadaver with awe and appreciation. When that person died, one life was lost, but in that death, life has been given to countless other people through the care I will give someday. There is an exchange that occurs between cadaver and student. Through death the cadaver willingly extends a hand to give the gift of life, and we reach out to graciously accept. The cadaver has passed on to us the foundation of our education, and for this we are forever grateful.</p>
<p>This exchange of knowledge begins in the anatomy lab, but continues throughout the entire medical school experience...</p>
<p>Jared Rich
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See Jared Rich's full statement and art work here: Artist's</a> Statement: This Is the Place Where Death Delights t... : Academic Medicine</p>
<p>It looks much better in color - see the link to Academic Medicine.</p>