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Cadavers honored in med student dissection lab

January 29, 2013 RSS Feed Print

"Once you put a name and a face to the body that you're working with, once you kind of put an identity to it, you kind of connect to it in a really meaningful and powerful way," he said.

Medical student Kyle Parker said he admired the donors' relatives for showing up, and wondered if he were in their shoes, "would I be willing to meet the people who have actually dissected my family member?"

Parker said he hopes the answer would be yes.

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Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest: http://iusm-nw.medicine.iu.edu

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