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    Anatomy of a Dream
    Anatomy of a Dream
    Anatomy of a Dream
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    Anatomy of a Dream

    By Eric Michael Schultz

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    A first-year medical student finds his dissections haunted by images of his past, as he tries to discover his dream of becoming a physician in the Land of the Living Bible

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEric Michael Schultz
    Release dateOct 29, 2012
    ISBN9781301933303
    Anatomy of a Dream
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    Eric Michael Schultz

    Eric Michael Schultz studied medicine at the University of Tel Aviv. He is a physician who teaches and works in medically-underserved areas around the country. Before medical school he had been a martial arts instructor, ESL teacher, and ambulance jockey. He believes that health care is a human right.

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      Anatomy of a Dream - Eric Michael Schultz

      Anatomy of a dream

      A journey to medicine in the land of the Living Bible

      Eric Michael Schultz, MD

      Cover Art by Tiffany Kamerman, DO

      Copyright 2012 Eric Michael Schultz

      Smashwords Edition

      Table of Contents

      Week One

      Week Five

      Week Nine

      Finals Week

      Week One:

      I was stripping layers off of my brain when the Bird Man returned.

      I held a brain in my latex-gloved hands. My brain wasn’t covered with blood or gore as I’d imagined it would. It was gray and lumpy, about the size of a honeydew melon. It smelled like vinegar, having been pickled in formalin for several weeks after being removed from an undeserving skull. It looked like a Play-doh model of a dinosaur shaped by the borderless imagination of a pudgy-handed three year old.

      I had stripped off the grey cortex of the insula, the island between the temporal and parietal lobes, with a broken popsicle stick. Underneath the nerve tracts of the internal capsule looked like white damp hemp. These tracts ascended to become the corona radiata, connecting the cortex and subcortical structures. They were telephones lines between Heaven and Earth, man and God.

      There were seventy of us trapped in the basement of Tel Aviv University, illuminated

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