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A Medical Student’s Anatomic Gift: There is More Involved than Dissection
From a medical student to the student’s group human cadaver:
“You are an exponential gift, from one man to eight future doctors to hundreds of patients to the multitudes that make up their family and friends ... You gave us access to the wonder that is human life and challenged us to discover all the intricate parts working together to make one man.”
To read the whole story of the Boston University School of Medicine’s anatomical gift program and its manager and anatomy lab director, Robert Bouchie, go to this
link. There you will find a find a fine video about the program but importantly read about the ethics and consideration given to the donated bodies but also to the deceased person’s family. Very inspiring. Do you want to donate your body to a medical school like Boston U.? ..Maurice.
6 Comments:
No. I don't want my body mutilated or put on display. I understand the importance and don't disagree with the program, but to me my body is more than a chunk of meat. Even after my spirit's gone.
I don't even want an autopsy unless it would help identify my murderer.
Eden
Eden, the decision as to whether you want your body used for education in medical school is entirely up to you and/or your family. ..Maurice.
No, sometimes we don´t even have a decision.... In the same way some of chose not to eat meat because of many things they do to animals, (KILL THEM is only one of them)!!!! Many homeless people or people with no family are taken advantage of, without absolutely no consent, and they don´t care, they even say "She/He had no family"!!!! Nice, huh? If by going to the doctor I am encouraging this, i won´t go.
"Eden, the decision as to whether you want your body used for education in medical school is entirely up to you and/or your family."
I wish it were that easy in hospitals when we're still alive. If it's not med students gawking at us it's nurses. Can't we just go and see only our doctor anymore?
Here is something very interesting, from the link below: "In exploring medical student attitudes, sociologists hit upon a particularly telling question. The question, "Would you yourself consider donating your body to a medical school to be used as a cadaver?" was asked of 99 medical students during their gross anatomy course. Only 11 said yes."
http://upalumni.org/medschool/appendices/appendix-11a.html
Right on Eden! I'm sick of feeling selfish for never allowing myslef to be used and destroyed in such a manner, even in death! And I couldn't live with imagining that happening to a loved one. God, the list goes on as to why I so deeply despise and am terrified by western medicine.
It's 2010-there really aren't other options for learning? at all?
At least it's nothing so horrific as plastination, which also has sketchy consent issues, but still.
Yes Dr. B, consent is the issue, nonetheless, Eden doesn't have to like any of this. (Eden is right also about how medicine and anatomists have preyed on the most weak. Never sat well w/me despite the "greater good.")
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