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Nationwide Recall of Cadavers Issued After One Found Alive in Anatomy Lab - Company regrets defective cadaver

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ENCINO, CA—A nationwide recall of human cadavers was issued today after a petrified group of anatomy students at a California medical school discovered a major defect in its cadaver: It was still alive.

Yesterday morning, medical student Edward S Hands says he had just cut into an arm using scissors when the cadaver—affectionately nicknamed “Kenny”—suddenly sat straight up, looked around in a daze, spotted the deep cuts in his arm and body, and calmly said, “Ouch”. Then, hopping off the table, he wrapped a drape around his waist and marched right out of the room.

Body donation organizations are at a loss to explain how a living person could have slipped through the cracks. “We take pride in delivering the highest quality corpses,” said Abby Cadavvy, CEO of Sesame Medical Care, a major cadaver supplier, “ones that will lie perfectly still on the table while students dissect it. We regret that a clearly defective cadaver made its way into an anatomy lab.”

Upon learning of the incident, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) made the unprecedented decision to recall every cadaver. “All cadavers must be sent back to the body donation companies,” said Secretary of HHS Alex Azar, “so they can make sure that the bodies are, in fact, 100% dead.”

Once the bodies are received, they will perform 72-hour cardiac monitoring, 48-hour EEG monitoring, 24 hours of continuous CPR, a Mini-Mental State Exam and a colonoscopy on each body to search for any signs of life.

Wait, a colonoscopy?! “Yes,” said Azar, “because if they are still alive, they’ll make that abundantly clear when you shove a tube up their…well, you get the picture.” [a DRE might work, too - Allen]

Meanwhile, medical students across the country are reacting to the news of the recall. “Oh my word!” exclaimed Bernardette Lomax, a med student in NY. “We’ve been slicing our cadaver for weeks already. It’d be devastating to learn she’s been alive this whole time!”

As for Kenny, authorities are eager to speak to him and examine him medically, but he hasn’t been seen since his dramatic exit from the anatomy lab. Asking the public for help in locating him, they warn that he may be unarmed and in danger.

Authorities also wish to interview the anatomy professor and the other two-dozen students who witnessed Kenny’s revival (aka #TheyResurrectedKenny), but they too have been unavailable for comment because they all remain in the anatomy lab, frozen in place, eyes wide and mouth agape. In fact, it appears they’ve all been frightened to death…but the good news, at least, is they can now be used as replacement cadavers.

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Fox2018

Hi Tall_Allen,

Laying in my hospital bed 7 hours after my robot radical prostatectomy - read your post and laughed so hard I expelled most of the CO2 gas they inflated my abdomen with earlier in the day! Loved it!

Mike

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Tall_Allen in reply toFox2018

This is the first time I've ever been told I made someone fart.

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Fox2018 in reply toTall_Allen

I wasn’t sure if I could use “far_” word - but yes you did!

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arete1105

Until I read all the way through and realized it was a satire, I thought this is impossible because I was an embalmer for 13 yrs. and at one of the mortuaries I worked at, they supplied cadavers to the local medical hospital for anatomy classes. Those bodies are embalmed slightly different than a normal person. These cadavers are injected with a strong formaldehyde solution with no drainage. Thus they are will pumped up/preserved and quite dead.

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Flydoggy

LOL!

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lincolnj8

Sooo funny. Had me going for a minute..

Very funny :-)

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Fuzzman77

LMAO!!!

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garyi

Obviously another case of talking zombies that the government has been trying to cover-up. Take heed gentlemen, PCa isn't the only risk in our lives....

Thanks for the warning, Allen :-))) Oh, I don't believe this is the first time ever, that you've been accused of making someone expel CO2 gas ;-)

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Tall_Allen in reply togaryi

Perhaps I am a contributor to global warming ;-)

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garyi in reply toTall_Allen

I think we ALL are!

BillDoc profile image
BillDoc

LOL 😃‼️

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Litlerny

VERY funny! 😂 I started to be suspicious of it when it mentioned the medical student’s name as Edward S. (as in scissors) Hands, but knew for sure it was very well conceived satire when it gave the CEO’s name ..Abby Cadavvy. I wonder if Alex Azar read it. I am definitely NOT donating my body to medical science when I croak. ⚰️😎

Nice to start the day with a big laugh. Btw, I didn’t fart like Fox2018...maybe later. 😉

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tarhoosier

I attended a wedding rehearsal as I was part of the event as a reader, at the invitation of my god-daughter who was the bride. Her matron of honor was a friend who was in medical school. The friend arrived a few minutes late due to her class running long. She said they had been dissecting specimens. She had to clean herself in a hurry to make the rehearsal. Her comment to all was "Do I smell like a cadaver?"

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DarrylPartner

April 1 came early

Doggedness profile image
Doggedness

Wow! Make sure I’m dead, I say!!!

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Cisco99

Fascinating

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