The comic · Principles of Biomedical Technology (PBT)

Week 5 of 17

The morgue

Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.

Drawing, panel 22: Ethics of autopsy, John Carroll.

John Carroll started today. They do not argue back and they never tell you when you are right.

FACILITATOR

You said the family decides. Could a family block an autopsy that would reveal a murder?

Panel 22Ethics of autopsy, John Carroll · 2026-09-21
Drawing, panel 23: Body systems and tissues.

Every organ in the body is built from combinations of just four tissue types. That made the whole body feel more knowable than it had an hour earlier.

Panel 23Body systems and tissues · 2026-09-23
Drawing, panel 24: Tissue and heart lab.

I kept driving the objective down past the specimen. Twenty minutes lost because I was too proud to ask.

PARTNER

Focus at low power first. Center it. Then go up.

Panel 24Tissue and heart lab · 2026-09-24
Drawing, panel 25: Analyze histology.

My sketches were rougher than the reference images, and I could not always tell if a difference was real or just my bad drawing. I wrote that down.

Panel 25Analyze histology · 2026-09-25
Drawing, panel 26: Submit morgue evidence.

Four tissue sketches and a heart diagram. Microscopic evidence explaining an organ you can hold.

Panel 26Submit morgue evidence
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