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For this week we had a guest lecture on bioethics. I never really like the scenarios they propose because they are often unrealistic. The one scenario where pushing the fat man off the bridge will save five people tied to the train tracks is pretty silly. If the fat man has enough mass to stop a speeding train then the man is about to die anyway due to his sheer weight. I am kidding of course but you kind of get the point. On Wednesday we were going to shadow surgeons at the Uniklinik. When we first arrived at the UniKlinik they spit us into two groups one going to the shadow the actual surgeons and the other group to walk around the emergency rooms or something. The BMEN group that did not get to see surgeons just had an extended tour of the hospital and then waited in the waiting room which was pretty lame. They came again with BIMS to see actual surgery but got put in the group that did nothing again which was the group I was placed in as well. They were pretty mad and I would be too. Fortunately there was some kind of children’s day so not much was going on in the hospital so we all got to see surgeries. I am not sure why they thought it was a good idea to split groups like that especially when one group does nothing and the other gets to see surgeries up close. But I digress. I was excited to see some surgeries at the Uniklinik.