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I just finished up my last prereq for nursing school and up until the very last two weeks, I loved my Anatomy & Physiology class. My professor authored the text book so was constantly making edits and taking suggestions from her students on how to make the book more user-friendly. She even offered extra credit points to students who found typos which meant they usually spent more time looking for mistakes than learning about their body parts.

After a grueling chapter on blood vessels, I was thrilled to be finally studying something I knew a thing or two about -- the reproductive system. I opened to the first page of the chapter and there it was...text superimposed over a picture of an embryo in a women's uterus. "Pregnancy is a sequence of events that begins with fertilization, proceeds to implantation, embryonic development, and fetal development, and normally ends with birth about 38 weeks later, or 40 weeks after the last menstrual period."

I read the statement again convinced that I was misunderstanding it. My professor couldn't possibly be providing INACCURATE information to the next generation of health care providers. I read on and after making it through a dozen or so pages on the male reproductive system, I came to the first of 50 pages on the female reproductive system. I flipped right to the subject heading "fertilization" and again read. This time she was using the term fertilization and pregnancy interchangably!

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