HereForTheBeer: Let me just say, biology is utterly remarkable and mind-blowing.
Rusty_Gunn: What I find interesting is how resilient yet fragile it can be.
Yeah. I was discussing with a doctor cousin, and I was saying how studying medecine would freak me out - Learning about all these things that can go wrong, all these vulnerabilities, all these necessary but delicate and precise little biological functions...
His answer was that he was even more impressed by all the safety mecanisms through which organisms regulate and repair themselves, so, all in all it all seemed more reassuring than frightening, to him...