Examined is one 1900-gram specimen of loss

[cjsmith]

Word to the wise: do not drink a glass of port before writing up a presentation on necropsy findings. With a little alcohol on board, it's much harder to forget that all those crisp descriptive words are wrapped around one family's heartache. "Examined is a 9 month old, 1.9kg female spayed Bengal cat..." ...someone's beloved pet, a kitten on the edge of adulthood, one they had snuggled and played with and petted, one they came for a second and third opinion to try to save. But it was already hopeless: the disease was fatal. And now we're going to tell you exactly what each of her internal organs looked like when we pulled it out.

I think I'm going to be a teetotaler for the duration of my anatomic pathology rotation.