I work for a Philadelphia university's health system doing lame tech stuff. Moving PCs and installing PC and printers, installing software applications, etc. Pretty gay for someone who has over ten years experience in network admin, database admin, and software development (C, Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, Javascript, SQL, Transact-SQL, etc). But sometimes you get to see some cool shit.
One day I was installing some software on some perfusion machines (heart and lung machines) for the Chief of Perfusion. We had to go into an OR to perform the install on one of the machines while it was in use for open heart surgery. I get all scrubbed up and we go in and I'm doing the install when the guy I'm with says, "Hey, you ever see somebody's heart?" I say no, and he asks if I want to see one, and I'm all like "Hell yeah".
He asks the doctors if I can take a look, and they say sure, but wait a minute because they're closing up. I'm standing there while they're using the cuatery iron and I'm getting a face full of burning flesh fumes for a little bit, then they reach into his rib cage and pull the dude's gaping chest wound open and they're all like, "Ha ha! Hey man, you ever see anything like that before!"
It was pretty wild being like 2 feet away from a living person who's sliced wide open and seeing their heart beating away in front of your face. It was also pretty wild how the doctors were totally into showing it off.
So far that's my coolest experience here.