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[email protected]. MARSHALL UNIVERSITY Friday Volume91 May 3, 1991 PARTHENON Number 108 families upset about med school using organs By JennHer P. Moran year neuroanatomy course and the tis Berk said the practice of getting medical school has a formal human gift Reporter------------ sue is cremated afterward, Dr. Mitch brains from the medical examiner's registry program. This program en ell L. Berk, acting chairman of anat office has been going on since the School courages the don!ltion of bodies by The Marshall School of Medicine omy, said. Ifthe medical school did not of Medicine's beginning. individuals or family members for gets 10 human brains a year, "and receive the donation of brains it could According to a report made by the medical education and research. More we're very appreciative ofit," Dr. Mitch hinder medical education, but the class National Association of Medical Ex than 550 are registered with the medi ell L. Berk, acting chairman of anat would be taught in spite of this prob e.miners, the law permits the cal school as future donors.