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Why is that a dig? It doesn't seem strange to me that someone in medical school has to learn all 206 bones in the human body.
by throwawaymath 8y ago
Why is that a dig? It doesn't seem strange to me that someone in medical school has to learn all 206 bones in the human body.
- pen2l 8y agoSince I've started weightlifting, and reading books of the subject and watching a lot of instructional videos, I know more about all sorts of muscles and bones than I ever thought I would have known. I didn't even have to try to memorize, it just sort of happened after an year or two of really taking lifting seriously. The human body is a beautifully complex system, and it's really quite fun studying it and stretching it to its limits. My biggest regret is having started lifting at a rather older age.
- 127 8y agoWhat books or sources would you recommend to learn human anatomy for optimal weight training?
- petermcneeley 8y agoIm hoping that a future world will see the memorization of the bones of the body as equivalent to learning geography today.
- hyperpallium 8y agoThe quote is not about learning the bones, but their names. TBF there is some regularity to the names e.g. the finger bones (phalanges) are named in a 2D grid of thumb..litte X inner..tip: I..V x proximal,middle,distal - Imiddle Toes are same named!
- kryptiskt 8y agoIf a doctor didn't know the names, what would he put in the patient's journal pre-surgery so the surgeon knew where to operate? Would he draw a hand with an arrow to the correct bone or write a paragraph describing where it is?
- hyperpallium 8y agoCould he look it up?
- hopler 8y agoA diagram seems less likely to be incorrect.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> The quote is not about learning the bones, but their names. Names simplify communication, both from educator to learner in teaching and practitioner to practitioner in use. Learning the names used for things in a field, is for that reason, usually part of learning about the things (and the field.) (Of course, names aren't always words, they can be visual symbols, and it's not like people learning math don't have to learn a whole lot of domain-specific visual notation alongside learning the concepts that notation is used to communicate about, for the exact same reason as medical students learn the names of bones and other body parts.)