Medscape’s The Differential is a collection of medical student blogs. Garnering about 1000 views each day, the international audience is (presumably) composed mainly of medical students of all years, with a smattering of residents and higher-ups.
We (the bloggers) are allowed to create a single-question poll with our post. So, how does national/international medical student/resident opinion on body donation compare with that of Harvard first years’ fresh out of anatomy (original post here)? The results are fairly similar.
The Body Donation Preferences After Taking Anatomy: Take 2 by This may hurt a bit, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Shara Yurkiewicz is a 3rd year medical student at Harvard University. She was an AAAS Mass Media Fellow, and has written for the LA Times and Discover. She is interested in medical ethics, and has conducted research at Harvard, Yale, and the Hastings Center. She received a B.S. in biology from Yale.