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work] is problem-solving and figuring how something works. 1 learned about DNA, how to read, sequence, manipulate it and insert it. The best part was knowing what I was doing as I was doing it, as 1 put this chemical in or separated something in the centrifuge.”
She was by no means confined to the lab. Miss Ciolfi said Governor’s School students had access to every part of MCV. As a teaching hospital, MCV staff is used to students wandering through areas the public isn’t usually allowed to see.
Wearing scrubs and sporting badges that identified them as Governor’s School students, Miss Ciolfi and the others observed operations, births and autopsies, encountered actual emergencies and talked to patients. It was more real than “E.R.” or “.Chicago Hope,” more immediate than textbooks or lectures.
“Everyone was always more than willing to answer our questions, no matter how busy they were,” recalled Miss Ciolfi. “The means and the resources were readily available for any kind of project a student had the notion to undertake.”
One day Miss Ciolfi observed the deliveiy of twins, one of whom had a hole in the diaphragm through which intestines protruded. The newborn was rushed to the pediatric emergency room, leaving the other twin, for the first time in nine months, on her own.
“Another student and I went over and touched and stroked her . . . she was only a few minutes old. Her eyes opened and I
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