Giving her a hand
Patrons of exotic dance establishments are reported to always be looking for ways to ingratiate themselves with favorite entertainers in hopes the dancers will sometimes grant these patrons some level of access to their real lives.
In New Brunswick, N.J., a doctor has pleaded not guilty to stealing a hand from a New Jersey medical school cadaver and giving it to an exotic dancer.
The dancer evidently had a penchant for body parts other than typically highlighted at the establishment. The physician is a 2005 graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and was charged Monday after voluntarily returning from Los Angeles where he is in an Emergency Medicine residency program.
The hand was found in a jar of formaldehyde in her bedroom along with six human skulls.
The discovery was made when police were called on a report of the roommate being suicidal. The dancer pleaded not guilty to unlawful disposal of human remains. The hand was evidently taken in 2002 according to the school and the investigation is ongoing.
The charge against the physician carries up to 10 years in prison.
It is sad how the psychopathology of both fetishes and addictions ruin so many lives.
In New Brunswick, N.J., a doctor has pleaded not guilty to stealing a hand from a New Jersey medical school cadaver and giving it to an exotic dancer.
The dancer evidently had a penchant for body parts other than typically highlighted at the establishment. The physician is a 2005 graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and was charged Monday after voluntarily returning from Los Angeles where he is in an Emergency Medicine residency program.
The hand was found in a jar of formaldehyde in her bedroom along with six human skulls.
The discovery was made when police were called on a report of the roommate being suicidal. The dancer pleaded not guilty to unlawful disposal of human remains. The hand was evidently taken in 2002 according to the school and the investigation is ongoing.
The charge against the physician carries up to 10 years in prison.
It is sad how the psychopathology of both fetishes and addictions ruin so many lives.
posted by Anonymous at 5:55 AM
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Speaking of "hands," there is an article in the paper this morning concerning a partnership between Floyd Memorial and the Kleinert&Kutz surgery center in New Albany. The story indicated that the hospital hoped to bring in additional doctors to expand services at the center.
You have frequently been critical of the hospital for NOT partnering with doctors and yet it appears that they have been pursuing collaborations after all. It makes me wonder if the issue is less a matter of hospital/doctor partnering than it is WHO the hospital chooses for its partners. The entire time you have been blogging about how the hospital should do more to partner with doctors, I never could figure out how there could be enough partnerships (and revenue) to go around. So...should we feel good about this partnership or bad because other doctors have been left out?
This partnership has potential to be a good thing, but there is a lot to the underlying motive of why it was done and how it was done.
The original plan to partner with the surgeons who practice routinely at Floyd fell through during negotiations. This occured well before this deal was even started.
These surgeons have elected to build their own surgical center which is being built in Industrial Park.
I have just one question, if you had your hand or fingers cut off, where would you rather go? To a local surgeon that practices in the Industrial Park or to the Kleinert-Kutz /FMH Surgical Center that has world renown Doctors at their disposal. Small town politics just don't carry too much weight anymore. I for one am glad to see that the Hospital is offering more diversity, that is going to make everyone do a better job in the long run. Doctors included.
Sounds like someone took, "I need someone to give me a hand," a bit too literally...
Okay, bad jokes aside.
This is disturbing on several levels. First, the availability of the hand and the ability of someone to get it and walk off with it is not comforting my any stretch of the imagination.
Secondly, the more I consider it, these 'places' strip clubs, and such are not just places for guys to hang out. Increasingly they are becoming more and more fronts for prostitution or, bluntly, just sitting and watching.
Thirdly, many of the women who work in these places are underskilled or desperate single parents or are addicted to drugs, alcohol, or whatever.
This kind of story, warped comment on my behalf aside, is troubling.
stealing and/or collecting body parts is not a new thing unfortunatly. anatomy teachers of the early 16th and 17th century did this as a means of having varied examples to show students. I doubt the "donors" families were informed or reimbursed then either.
The hospital FMH can't afford to hire the employee's they need, but can find the money to buy into Kutz & Kleinert. Seems the employees at FMH and patient's going there would rather have the staff to care for them.
Anonymous 08:11 seems to think the hospital should stop ALL new spending just because it is going through a period of adjusting overall spending to match revenues. The hospital is not going out of busines. Like all enterprises which expect to be around in the future, it must continue to plan and make investments to insure its success. Not spending anything because of spending restraints in some areas is shortsighted and a recipe for stagnation at best and failure in the future at worst.
As far as the "world renowned surgeons at Kleinert Kutz". I've been there -- wasn't too impressed. I'm not sure what is in this deal for FMH. Will the surgery center throw off cash that much cash, or is this "kingdom-building" by the FMH administration.
The Kutz and Kleinert center in NA is very slow. What is in it for Floyd, exactly?
I for one can see whats in it for Floyd, it will give people in Floyd County access to
physicians that may be willing to accept their Insurance and access to Physicians that don't spend their time critizing every move that the CEO of our current hospital makes. It will allow people to choose Doctors that focus their resources and time doing what Physicians do best, looking out for their patients and furthering their education so they can provide the best service they can, to their patients. Maybe the many people that were forced out of Floyd Co. to the other side of the river by the actions of the local Doctors refusing insurance coverage to their patients, will now be able to see their Doctors closer to home.
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