Nettie Jenkins from Flight for Life Fond du Lac Base recently ran a course I organized for our students that gave them hands-on experience about heart and lungs. To do so, our students dissected and examined pig hearts and lungs.

Now, if a picture is worth a thousand words, for those with a weak stomach, the one that might come to mind first is “yuck” when glancing through the images below.

But, truthfully, the words that should resonate most are “life-saving” and “learning.” 
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