Medical Schools have strange ideas
When you make a decision to donate your body to medical science, it is really a decision that should be communicated to the family that is left behind.
When you are a medical school and the family of a deceased who disagree with the deceased decision to donate his body want the body back, I would honestly believe you respect the family’s wishes and allow them to bury the body.
What you do not do – in my humble opinion – is take the widow to court demanding that she hand over the body to the medical school.
There is just something wrong about that case.
But: It has happened and made the back page of the Daily Graphic.
When you are a medical school and the family of a deceased who disagree with the deceased decision to donate his body want the body back, I would honestly believe you respect the family’s wishes and allow them to bury the body.
What you do not do – in my humble opinion – is take the widow to court demanding that she hand over the body to the medical school.
There is just something wrong about that case.
But: It has happened and made the back page of the Daily Graphic.
1 Comments:
Hmmm... I was enraged by the exact opposite situation the other day... one of my doctor friends who is currently doing his community service year, got a needle prick from what may/may not have been an HIV positive baby. His mother would not allow the baby to be tested (her right), so my friend has to take a 5-week course of antiretrovirals. Surely in this case the patient should be forced to be tested, to save another human being the pain of taking unnecessary drugs just to be safe?
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