med shenanigans (1 Viewer)

[xeuyrawp]

enrol in an anatomy course...and u can get to do the dissection..

its full bodies..
not just parts..
i have a good site to show u "how-to do dissections" tho
http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/toc.htm

good ole internet..

Bah. Macquarie sucks major cock for biology stuff. How does one become a medical corroner?

Thanks for that link, btw

WTF, the corpses are all... er.. dry.

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

RE: "how bad would it be as a student to find out that the body your about to cut up.... is someone you knew... :O"

- that has happened.. u tend to find another one..


"WTF, the corpses are all... er.. dry."
- the chemicals do tat.. . think of it lik food.. if u dun preserve it by drying and/or chemicals.. it goes bad..
the fat tissue becomes very weird indeed..


"How does one become a medical coroner?"
- i thought it was via a Law degree... some ppl also have medical degrees but its not needed.. i think u need a lil science specialty..

unless ure talking about a forensic pathologist.. the guy who decides how he died... works under the coroner.. then its a medical degree.. and u specialise in pathology.. then forensic pathology..
but there isnt many positions available.. and u got to be quite good to do it..

 

[xeuyrawp]

RE: "how bad would it be as a student to find out that the body your about to cut up.... is someone you knew... :O"

- that has happened.. u tend to find another one..


"WTF, the corpses are all... er.. dry."
- the chemicals do tat.. . think of it lik food.. if u dun preserve it by drying and/or chemicals.. it goes bad..
the fat tissue becomes very weird indeed..


"How does one become a medical coroner?"
- i thought it was via a Law degree... some ppl also have medical degrees but its not needed.. i think u need a lil science specialty..

unless ure talking about a forensic pathologist.. the guy who decides how he died... works under the coroner.. then its a medical degree.. and u specialise in pathology.. then forensic pathology..
but there isnt many positions available.. and u got to be quite good to do it..

Well, 'Coroner' is the title in Australia for the guy that heads up the investigation as to how someone died. That's why I said 'medical coroner'; more like the American use of the word.

So preserving the corpse consists of draining the blood, I suppose? And then what? Pumping a preservative back in?

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

draining then.. then pumping then dunking them in to vats with the chemical..

but there is plans to go to plastination or sumfing which look fresher and keeps longer... but it limits us to lookin and no dissections

im not 100% familiar with the techniques tho..

 

[Lexicographer]

"Coroner" in the US is the medical examiner who discerns the cause of death etc in victims of a crime. They are intimately involved in the legal process (in some cases actually conducting the investigation).

In Australian use however the coroner is usually a magistrate who presides over a coroners court. S/he has no contact with the cadavers or other evidence material, and functions in a purely legal capacity. There is no such thing as a "medical coroner".

Forensic pathologists (practitioners of pathology for legal purposes) investigate the causes of injury and/or death in both living and (more commonly) dead victims. They are expert advisors of the court and function in the same capacity as any other expert advisor - they have no interest in or influence on the findings of the court (ie the coroner).

 

[xeuyrawp]

"Coroner" in the US is the medical examiner who discerns the cause of death etc in victims of a crime. They are intimately involved in the legal process (in some cases actually conducting the investigation).

In Australian use however the coroner is usually a magistrate who presides over a coroners court. S/he has no contact with the cadavers or other evidence material, and functions in a purely legal capacity. There is no such thing as a "medical coroner".

Forensic pathologists (practitioners of pathology for legal purposes) investigate the causes of injury and/or death in both living and (more commonly) dead victims. They are expert advisors of the court and function in the same capacity as any other expert advisor - they have no interest in or influence on the findings of the court (ie the coroner).

I thought a pathologist studied pathological diseases, though.

Personally, I'd find being a coroner (in the Australian sense) boring. Too much almost-interesting-but-not work. After reading The Coroner, it looks like a hellova tough job, though. I like it how he constantly had the conversations:

'x: So what do you do?
him: I'm a coroner.
x: Oh, that must be weird/spooky/disgusting.
him: Actually, I practice law, not medicine.'

When he had a heart-attack, the ambulance officer said the same thing.

Being the person that conducts the autopsy would be cool, I think. I've always wanted to watch one.