Medscape May 21, 2025
In her first semester of medical school, Ava Dunlap took part in a small-group seminar where students would review real and hypothetical patient cases. One day, the students analyzed the historical case of Admiral Horatio Nelson, who was shot and killed on a naval ship in 1805.
The students had to visualize how the bullet traversed each part of his body in its pathway, think through what they might see on imaging for other similar penetrating wounds, and consider how they would treat them.
As had become typical for the group, the first step was to pull up Complete Anatomy — an interactive anatomy learning platform — on a TV to better visualize how the bullet tore through Nelson’s...
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