Title: Body Donation - Attitude and Knowledge of Medical Professionals
Authors: Dr Anisha B, Dr Vasantha Kuberappa
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i10.89
Abstract
There is huge deficiency in number of cadavers in anatomy for dissection. Mainly this is because of increase in number of medical colleges and also increase in number of students in each college. Also there is decreased number of unclaimed bodies and very few cadaver donations. The solution for these remains to increase in number of donations towards medical education. Although anatomists encourage people to donate bodies, the attitudes of anatomists toward donating their own bodies for dissection is not well known3. The questionnaire was distributed to the doctors in the medical college in bangalore irrespective of department. Results showed that more than 50% of the doctors are ready to donate organs but not whole body. The main reason for not donating was unacceptability of donation by family. Few doctors were not even aware of the legal procedures towards body donation. we did not find any statistical significant diffrence in opnion based on age or gender.
Keywords: Voluntary body donor , body donation, medical professionals.
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