Returning to my old medical school recently, I crossed paths with the professor who once taught us embryology. I remember him as an excellent lecturer. He took us through the intricacies of human development logically and compellingly. When we met, I recalled his lectures and his enthusiasm. He laughed, saying that, for 32 years, he has taught the same course in the same way to thousands of students. How wonderful, I thought, that, despite enormous changes to the medical school in almost every other way, some things hadn't changed at all. But later I thought-how terrifying! The same set of lectures every year for 32 years. How could he bear it?
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