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New York’s medical schools will no longer use unclaimed bodies from city medical examiner’s office
New York’s medical schools will no longer use unclaimed bodies from city medical examiner’s office as cadaversALBANY — Medical schools are giving up on the city’s unclaimed dead.
Associated Medical Schools of New York, which represents the state’s 16 medical schools, announced Wednesday they would no longer accept unclaimed bodies from the city medical examiner for use as cadavers.
Instead, the medical schools — including eight that are located in the city — will rely on donor programs.
"Donating your body to science is the ultimate gift a person can make,” AMSNY President Jo Wiederhorn said in a statement. “We can't train future doctors without these donations and, in many cases, we can't make medical discoveries that lead to cures and life improvements without them.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-med-schools-won-unclaimed-bodies-cadavers-article-1.2746262