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http://news.yahoo.com/michigan-woman-pleads-guilty-trading-diseased-body-parts-222742978.html(Reuters) - A Michigan woman pleaded guilty on Monday to a scheme in which she and her husband used their medical cadaver business to sell infected body parts to unwitting medical and dental students, prosecutors said.
Elizabeth Rathburn, 56, of the Detroit suburb of Grosse Point Park admitted selling human remains she claimed were disease-free, but which had tested positive for HIV and Hepatitis B, the U.S. Attorney's Office in eastern Michigan said in a statement.
Prosecutors said Rathburn and her husband, Arthur Rathburn, ran a company called International Biological, Inc. that would sell or rent human remains to medical and dental students.
Prosecutors said the couple would purchase diseased specimens from suppliers at a discount and misrepresent the remains to maximize profit, defrauding customers and exposing them to infection.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Evil kinda sounds mild compared to what they did. Need a stronger word.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)I thought uh - something is um. . .
Codeine
(25,586 posts)We used to browse Craigslist solely for entertainment purposes.
Vinca
(50,168 posts)This surely falls into the category of anything for a buck.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)How do you think surgeons practice new techniques? You want to learn how to do a procedure, you go to a continuing education class where there's a room full of the required bit set up on trays, and you learn to do the procedure in a class taught by an expert. So if you're learning a knee surgery there won't be a room full of corpses, there will be a room full of knees.
It keeps costs down and makes for more uses of donated bodies than keeping them intact. There's a pretty great documentary about this (IMO it's pretty even handed) but you'll probably need to use a VPN (I use hola.org) to see it because it's on the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sr293