When the University of Maryland's medical school opened 200 years ago, doctors had one big problem: They needed dead bodies, and there was no good way to get them.
In Michigan.
On eBay.
Everyone, it seems, has a skeleton in a closet. And even weirder: There are still people willing to pay for them.
posted on December 4, 2006 12:53:37 PM new
I dated a med student in college. He and his cronies named 'their' cadaver Patty Hearst (she was missing at the time) - macabre humor...
posted on December 4, 2006 05:53:11 PM new
I have a sister-in-law who swears she is giving her body to any medical school that want it. UGH! Not my cup of tea for sure.
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