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The article focuses on the experience of the author as a medical student. Not long ago, the author found herself remembering her days as a new medical student at a respected East Coast institution in the early 1970s. The author and along with 9 other women--out of a class of 200--were proud of their role as pioneers in the largely male-dominated world of medicine. Facing their cadavers for the first time, none of them fainted--the women remained on their feet, eager to begin their hands-on adventure in human anatomy.