Silent Mentors

[gmul]

From the "Why on earth can't we do that here?" file, we bring you the Tzu Chi Foundation and their Silent Mentor programme as a means of obtaining cadavers for medical training. There's an outline as part of a more general article here and a vignette from a medical student here.

(I wonder if this was the inspiration for the HHGTTG Dish of the Day. (Sorry...))