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I read your comments about the anatomy class at your medical school. I taught Gross Anatomy to dental and medical students in Houston from 1975 to 1999 and experienced the shrinkage of time in dissection. I agree that 8 weeks is not enough time to properly dissect a cadaver. There is another problem. The number of classically trained anatomists continues to shrink. More anatomy is taught by clinicians. I think is contributing to a shrinking knowledge base. The only important anatomy is that related to the clinical experience of the professor. There is less chance for the student to learn by self-discovery. How many times did we hear a student complain when dissecting that it was “nothing like the book/atlas”. We had the time then to convince the student that it is almost always like the book, but they have to be able to recognize variation and anomolies. Isn’t that what a clinician has to do almost every day? Today, everything is like the book, as students virtually study dissections. It is tragic. Thank you for an interesting article. Barry Hinderstein