Stylised drawings of anatomy with a thousand latin names to learn
Old and strange cases of people coming in with outlandish symptoms and stories
Learning about all the intricate ways the system of your body ties together
Late nights studying all the ways that system can break down
All your writer friends asking you whether it is possible for the human body to break down a certain way
Being more intimately familiar with death than outsiders wil ever understand
Being taught how to be gentle with secrets
Having a deep love for music - Apollo, after all, was god of both music and healing
Knowing you will once make decisions about life and death on a daily basis
The scent of formaldehyde lingering in your hair and thanking the people that gave their bodies to science, and the stories they left behind
Handwriting becoming slowly more illegible as you try to copy down more details. This might save a life one day
The romanticism of helping others