

When Training Crosses the Line and What That Says About Us


Last month, while co-teaching a forensic trauma course, I ended up in a side conversation with the other instructor—one that’s still lodged in my brain. He told me about a prior class he’d led in India where, without warning, he was expected to assist in a live animal lab involving pigs. No consent, no prep—just “here’s the pig and here’s the gun.” He shrugged and said, “That’s just how they train