Well, they didn’t object.......................
Years ago the University of Pittsburgh Rugby Club got suspended from it’s league because they stole a human skull from the pathology lab and used it in warmups instead of a ball to psych-out the other team.
They are overselling this. It’s a selfie someone took and the heads are visible in the pic. Press makes it sound like they were doing a group hug with them or something.
I am going to donate my body to science since it would be the only way I could get into medical school.
Thirty some years ago I was getting ready to play a U Pitt Med School club rugby team, we were warming up, passing the ball around etc. I looked over at the Pitt players on the other side of the field they were doing something similar. Then I noticed there was something odd about the ball they were using. It wasn’t a rugby ball!
They fell for the sign that said "Teeth cleaned while you wait."
-PJ
This kind of stuff has probably been happening since photography was invented. Only thing is now people get caught doing it. Not a big deal, IMO
usually there is a NO PHOTOGRAPHS policy in these labs. Poor choices.
As long as they don’t sever the heads of their patients and do an outstanding job I guess I wouldn’t mind. Medical students learn from the dead, even dentists I guess. They probably were just skulls anyway. I didn’t look to see if they showed the selfie, because I assumed they didn’t. But I can’t imagine they have flesh on them, eyes balls still in their skulls, or a brain do they? But probably not a good thing to post online though. One for your eyes only, and perhaps a few close friends.
I wonder what colon-and-rectal-surgeons would take selfies with?
then why not take a selfie with the head of a cadaver?
(Severed head is inflammatory.)
Believe it or not, this is a HIPAA violation. They should have known better.
Were those taken in the Max Headroom?
Doctors and dentists can do stupid things too. It seems funny at the time, but . . . . . .
Sort of like the crime scene photos in Naked Gun when they were taking turns posing with the cadaver?
Back when I was an undergrad, some pre-med guy, in order to show how tough he was, removed the intestines of a donor cadaver and skipped rope with them in the lab right there in front of all the other students. He was expelled pronto. Still... anyone up for donating your body to science? Might want to think twice about that if, that is, you expect your remains to be treated with dignity.
I would guess that 90% of practicing physicians have done something similarly “disturbing” and “inexcusable”. Gallows humor is how we deal with the macabre.