Back in the day, when I was a university professor, I used to teach a class in Human Anatomy and Physiology. This class was popular with the football players, who all took it under the tragic misapprehension that it would be easy.
I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.
You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.
Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.
Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of anatomy and knows how to do that operation - or would you prefer to have a surgeon who refused to read all books about anatomy and relied on his own instinct?
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.
Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives.
In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.
