Letter: Grinning over dead bodies
Pararescue Jumpers from 103rd Rescue Squardron learn how to perform a fasciotomy on a cadaver during a medical training session where intubation and other medical emergency procedure are needed. (June 22, 2012) Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams, Jr.
This is in response to "Their body of work" [News, June 23], about an Air Force surgical training session on real human corpses.
My brother-in-law died three days before this story ran. His wish was that his body be donated to a hospital for research use.
After reading your article, I am disappointed, in part at Lt. Col. Stephen Rush, an Air Force flight surgeon, who was quoted as saying, "Everybody's going to get a limb."
The smile on the face of one of the students in the picture makes it look like enjoyment rather than a learning experience. I hope that my brother-in-law's body is given to a group of caring and sincere students of medicine, rather than the people in your article.
Sarah A. Montague, Massapequa
