what do hospitals do with the appendix,tonsils, uterus, or other organs when removed during surgery?
2007-09-23 05:20:04 · 3 answers · asked by Brenda M 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
After the organs are sliced and tested, is the rest incinerated ?
2007-09-23 05:42:08 · update #1
They are usually biopsied in the path lab. Results are kept in your medical file. The organs are disposed of as medical waste. They are usually incinerated. You can ask them to save your organs and give them to you if you want them. A friend of mine kept her appendix and has it in a sealed jar of alcohol. Don't know why you would want them except for "show and tell," but they are yours and you can have them if you want them.
2007-09-23 09:36:44 · answer #1 · answered by Pinky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't you have the steak and kidney pie when you in hospital? With funding to hospitals cut by politicians so they can vote themselves huge retirement packages, corners have to be cut. Waste not, want not!
There was an episode of Boston Legal where a contractor was arrested for selling biological waste to a foreign country for them to use as fuel and his lawyer got him off by convincing the jury he was saving the environment by recycling.
2007-10-01 11:58:48 · answer #2 · answered by thom t 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They send them to Pathologic Anatomy labs.
They make them slices and look at them on a microscope and then save some of the slices for years and years (who knows, somebody may want to look at them)
The rest is thrown as infectious waste.
2007-09-23 12:34:53 · answer #3 · answered by mbestevez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋