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...Metalious case highlighted a situation that has caused every U.S. medical and dental school a vast amount of trouble and anxiety for most of the past 25 years, and is still afflicting about half of them. Professors say medical students learn anatomy best if only two of them share in dissecting a body; with 8,800 freshmen entering medical schools this year, that would mean 4,400 bodies, plus 1,000 for dental students* and at least 2,000 for research surgeons anxious to practice advanced techniques. By best estimates, U.S. schools are now getting 3,000 bodies a year...
...serve sev en medical schools, under the motto, "Let the dead teach the living." The association gets upwards of 200 bodies a year by bequest, and 300 from state institutions−still far short of the 1,200 that are needed by all the state's medical and dental schools and research hospitals. In New York, famed private schools Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Cornell University Medical College get many bodies by bequest, but like other schools they must still rely mainly on indigents. Florida resembles California in abundance of body bequests...
Humans First. Dental Surgeon Hodosh got the idea for implanting plastic teeth seven years ago and proposed a pilot study to authorities at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. Ordinarily such research would begin with animals, but there was no money available for such a cautious start. Dr. Hodoshen listed 25 human volunteers...
Some of those first implants are still going strong. But there have also been some failures, and with a series of grants from the National Institute of Dental Research, Dr. Hodosh has turned to animals to find out why. With Veterinarian Morris Povar and Pathologist Gerald Shklar, he has placed 125 implants in the mouths of monkeys and baboons...
...post of dean. Although deans are usually M.D.s, they have no chance to practice and are usually dismissed by their colleagues as "doctors who don't know enough to be professors." Even at Harvard, where the dean of the faculty of medicine heads both the medical and dental schools and is a recognized leader in his profession, the then president, James Bryant Conant, 16 years ago had to convince the man of his choice that "Harvard furnishes an excellent vantage point from which to make a contribution to medical education...