more medical ickery

I remember well, the MASH episode where pierce plugs the hole in one kids aorta with a finger while he waits for another kid to die, so they can harvest is aorta as a replacement. It introduced me to the concept of cadaver harvesting. I know that replacing a torn ACL, the replacement tissue has to come from somewhere, it’s another one of those things you’d just rather not think about. Suddenly that hyper athletic guy, talking about how his 40 time is getting back in line with what it was before his injury, seems a little more like a ghoul, eh?

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