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  • #16
    Back in the day, they used to call OR's "operating theatres." That's because that's literally what they were: theatres. The public could buy tickets to watch autopsies or watch operations. Students would learn through observation.

    They don't build them that way anymore. There's not enough room for a conference in modern OR's or med school labs. So when surgeons need to meet to learn about new equipment or techniques, they need a place where a crowd can observe the procedures. Hotels make a weird kind of sense.

    I know of no law that prohibits this practice outside of a hospital or medical school. The only applicable laws would be those governing biohazards. As long as those are properly disposed of, I doubt the health department would get involved.

    It's still gross.
    They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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    • #17
      It would have been cool if a restaurant customer had seen it and asked you about it.
      You could have said "He forgot to tip."
      "All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who out-drew ya"

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      • #18
        "slowly shakes head"
        Friends help you move. Rare friends help you move bodies.

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        • #19
          Quoth Sheldonrs View Post
          It would have been cool if a restaurant customer had seen it and asked you about it.
          You could have said "He forgot to tip."
          "Actually, that was the last guest we had checked-in to your room. No clue what happened to him..."
          "If anyone wants this old box containing the broken bits of my former faith in humanity, I'll take your best offer now. You may be able to salvage a few of em' for parts..... " - Quote by Argabarga

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          • #20
            I sort of wonder what the dead person would have thought about it wherever s/he is now?
            Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

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            • #21
              I totally get the "Ick factor"

              ...but I also seem to be the only person thinking "Cadaver training in a Ballroom! Kick A$$ sign me up!" then again I have been told my sense of 'fun' is warped, twisted, and demented......
              "I'm not smiling because I'm happy. I'm smiling because every time I blink your head explodes!"
              -Red

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              • #22
                I'm with you, Red. I've always wanted to take gross anatomy just to see how all the innards fit together and such.
                I am no longer of capable of the emotion you humans call “compassion”. Though I can feign it in exchange for an hourly wage. (Gravekeeper)

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                • #23
                  I'm really really bad

                  All I can think is:

                  "What a centerpeice for the banquet!"

                  (person who has been around medical types tooo long)
                  I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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                  • #24
                    Ok, so I did some more research. Apparently this is quite legal and common. Glad I didn't go trying to report them just to get myself fired for trying to start trouble. I still think it's wrong and gross, though. Turned out, also, that rumors went a little crazy and it wasn't a dissection. It was a, uh, gynocological demonstration. Lovely.
                    The original Cookie in a multitude of cookies.

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                    • #25
                      If they didn't take ever single piece of the body with them, they could get into legal issues or if they were taking pictures.

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                      • #26
                        @casey13 Yeah, but that's not something we find out until later. The actual act of bringing cadavers to a hotel ballroom is quite legal.
                        The original Cookie in a multitude of cookies.

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                        • #27
                          It is fairly common to perform practice surgeries, demonstrations, etc. with cadavers, and this is indeed commonly done in hotels.

                          There is quite a trade in cadavers for this purpose. It's pretty common for a medical device company to do a demonstration of a new surgical product using a body. Since there is no time pressure, they can stop whenever they want to for questions, point things out, etc. It seems kind of gross, but I personally would rather a budding surgeon practice on my corpse after I'm dead than fumble around with a living patient.

                          As long as there is no bone saw in use that would areosolize nastiness, I can't imagine it is any more unsanitary than cutting a rare steak. It's not like they are going to use a disease-ridden bloated corpse straight out of a bad police procedural.

                          SirWired

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                          • #28
                            Quoth incognitocook View Post
                            Ok, so I did some more research. Apparently this is quite legal and common. Glad I didn't go trying to report them just to get myself fired for trying to start trouble. I still think it's wrong and gross, though. Turned out, also, that rumors went a little crazy and it wasn't a dissection. It was a, uh, gynocological demonstration. Lovely.
                            I've done some googling and couldn't work out a search criteria that didn't show hotels in dissections as anything other than a group rate, rather than a venue.

                            Any suggestions? I can't find anything just yet, and I consider myself to be rather strong of stomach.

                            Rapscallion

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                            • #29
                              I searched "cadaver in hotel ballroom" and came up with news articles about events happening in hotels involving cadavers. Also, I just did the search again and this time this thread is the #3 result on google.
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                              • #30
                                http://www.docstoc.com/docs/26077773...formity-Course you mean? There are certainly hotel rooms mentioned, but there's also a bus mentioned to the cadaver lab. Trying to work out if they just have classes in the hotel and then go to the lab for the dissection, or if they have cadavers there as well.

                                *ponder*

                                Rapscallion

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