A yummy, mouth-watering gastronomical treat on any other day for any other person, this chef’s specialty cuisine acquires a whole new nuance at the microbiology lab.
We, the medical students, are oft tantalized and romanticized with exotic and fantastical descriptions of utterly boring conditions and diseases. But nowhere does it gets more senselessly delusional than in histopathology and micro. From the ‘Tennis Racket Appearance’ of the glomeruli of Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease to the ‘Starry Sky Pattern’ of Burkitt’s lymphoma, there’s a whole range of moods and sentiments getting conveyed by how pathologists remember their microscopic canvases.
To the dismay of many women, the rich breed of immaculate, well dressed microbiologists do not feature the abnormal connection to the heart from his stomach (a gastrocardiac fistula?). Because deep inside every microbiologist, all roads lead to the frontal cortex memory cramming neurons.
That is why when I searched on Google ‘Meatballs and Spaghetti’ alone, and then ‘Meatballs and Spaghetti and Microbiologists’, the difference was one between a savoring mouth-watering delicacy and an anorexia inducing gamut of fungus. Yes, fungus. Meatballs and Spaghetti is the classic description fungi that display their two morphologic shapes. Just like us humans can look either masculine and feminine when looked from high above, these fungi either look round like meatballs or elongated like the spaghetti. So in a random mix, you get to see both of them.
But that shouldn’t mean that meatballs and spaghetti should remind us of terrible, infesting fungi that cause smelly diseases!
Sigh!
Meatballs and Spaghetti!
