just wear smart. it's to expose applicants to hospital and medical environment, in the hope that some will realise they are not suited for this, and back out.........

while the identities of the patient, and the cadaver are not obvious in the pictures, nevertheless, they should not be posted in a public domain place like this..........

even if the 'hospital director' tells you to take them, doesn't mean you have the right or permission to post them here..........

whatever media material available in the lab is meant strictly for the use of the med school for learning purposes.......

owning a set of bones is okay, they are your private belongings........

poor enforcement is NOT an excuse for breaking rules........

the issue is not the actual taking of pictures.......nor that the patient has consented to the taking of pictures........

the issue is posting them in public domain sites like blogs, or forums like this......

try asking them for permission to take their pictures and inform them that you will be displaying the pictures openly in the internet (or post them on posters all over town), and see what their response is.........

therein lies one of the many differences between the developed world, and the 3rd world......

i am now being pedantic, but there is a distinct difference, legally, between giving permission for pictures to be taken for private, professional, and public use........

case in point being the yb elizabeth wong pixs..........

but i guess it doesn't matter in the india context.......

This post has been edited by limeuu: Mar 21 2009, 02:33 PM

2 comments......

1. that is a terrible incision, and will leave a terrible scar on the women......

2. nail avulsion does not cure ingrowing toenail, and is mostly abandoned. wedge resection (zadek's procedure) is the preferred procedure, and should routinely be done with tourniquet to reduce bleeding........

in which case, the best treatment is not radical surgery, but adjuvant chemotherapy........the same operation can be done through a less mutilating incision.....

in any case, no matter what the women's age is, or socio-economic class, there is no reason to mutilate them.......they are also humans with feelings.......

history has clearly shown heroic surgery over 100+ years, from the times of halstead, had never reduce mortality from breast cancer.........

what changed things was the original report some 30 years ago from milan by Bonadonna et al..........cmf changed everything......