Out of their Gourd

Brain surgeons training in Cleveland don’t get to start right away on the real thing. They start with squash. “The pumpkins simulate the skull and the brain as physicians bore a tiny hole in the outside pumpkin shell and insert a thin scope into simulated brain tissue,” explains Dr. Alan Cohen of University Hospitals of Cleveland. The surgeons practice removing seeds from the pumpkins and, once adept, graduate to cadaver heads and then real patients. (Reuters) ...Spit those seeds out, doctor. That’s a mighty bad habit to get into.