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Jessica Drummond and Juliana Chan


Medical students hold service to tribute cadavers

The lab coats were neatly hung on the far wall of the Medical School's gross anatomy lab. The operating tools were put away almost two months ago - yet some first-year Medical students had some unfinished business. On Friday, with a tinge of formaldehyde still lingering in the air, about 90 first-year medical students walked back into the now-empty dissection room to pay respects to people they never knew, but bodies they knew all too well. It was a memorial service dedicated to the group of people who donated their bodies for study by Medical School students.

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