43 Genuinely Shocking Things Medical Professionals Discovered When Examining Dead Bodies

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“In college, I took a figure drawing class, and the teacher was adamant that you couldn’t draw the figure if you didn’t know what was in it, so he dragged us over to the anatomy lab and had the anatomy teacher show us two cadavers that were being dissected by their med students. When it came time to ask questions, of course, ‘Have you ever found something weird in a body?’ came up. The story is as follows.”

“They got a body, and for legal reasons, they weren’t told much about the person aside from medical history. They were told that the older man was a sort of rock star type who had been a one-hit wonder in his youth, and to use extra discretion with him in particular/not to tell the students, who might recognize him. The lab was full of 20-year-olds, and so nobody recognized who he was (I’m unsure if the teacher even knew, but it didn’t sound like she did) or what his deal was, so they wrote it off as non-useful information aside from his lifestyle. He had drug use and alcohol issues in his life, and they were told he partied a lot. Cool.

The body had a raging boner like 100% of the time. The teacher didn’t think much of it aside from the fact that he was particularly endowed, and everybody wrote it off as not necessary to their studies. So they went through the general dissection. One kid wanted extra credit, and the teacher said, ‘Sure, dissect his penis/see why it’s still hard, and write a report (apparently they don’t usually do that for that particular class; the penis itself goes untouched during their dissection, so it would have otherwise always been a mystery).

The kid found an actual rod that he had medically inserted under the table (it was not in his medical records) so that he would always have a boner and could get it up while on drugs. They suspect it was done over 30-40 years before his death.

They removed it and kept it in the lab, I believe, to show their students as part of a section on under-the-table medical surgeries.

Anyways, that was probably the best day in figure drawing class I’ve ever had.”

—u/lazymarp