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I think that going into this class I had many misconceptions on my body and whats going on inside of it. The fact that everything isn’t standard and consistent worries me. If we have unmyelinated and myelinated axons and they can vary in diameter, how exactly do we have people who are specialists on these things. If they vary from person to person, who’s to say that performing surgery on one person requires the same things as surgery on another person. We also have many receptors that are responsible for their own section. How is it determined what receptor belongs where? Do they look different? Act different? Something that can be distinguished by scientists? The variations bother me just because it makes me feel a lot less secure in our medical system. I feel like my body and actions are a mystery to me now that I see them in a scientic light. If it’s my body and I don’t understand it, how can some doctor who just met me?