Story from a friend of a friend
A girl I once dated told me the following story.

She knew someone attending medical school, who'd been present when the groups of students are issued a cadaver for practice and to assist with studying anatomy.

It is not - repeat not - to be used for the purpose of dressing it up and taking it down the pub.

Said students were rumbled and immediately booted out of medical school and prevented from practicing medicine anywhere at any time in the future for said serious breech of ethics.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 28 Feb 2008, 13:46, 2 replies)

I've known a lot of medical students
And have long feared stories like this.

Thankfully all the ones I've met were extremely humourless on the subject of cadavers and were very respectful and grateful to the people who gave up their bodies so my friends could learn to help the living.

If anyone had done something like that they probably would have had a very, very bad time of it from their former friends before being rightfully expelled. Probably only the hippocratic oath would stop them getting the shit kicked out of them.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 14:16, closed)

My brother
is a vet, and has recounted a few stories from when he was a student, mostly involving greyhound organs being flung at people (apparently they tend to work on greyhounds in anatomy classes a lot). Eww.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 14:19, closed)