Kyle Gospodarek expected to feel nervous about seeing a dead body up close on his first day of anatomy lab. He steeled himself for the smell — a pungent blend of latex, embalming fluid and something ...

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The controversy around MBBS student Sejal Pawar and comedian Pranit More's crowd-work show doesn't seem to be dying down ...

Controversy Erupts Over Medical Student's Comments Photo: @NileshHW/X Mumbai, June 12: Sejal Pawar, a medical student at King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital in Mumbai, has issued a formal apology ...

Dr Sejal Pawar’s remark about a male cadaver during comedian Pranit More’s show has triggered backlash online. In that video, the young doctor can be heard talking about how medics joke about a man’s ...

The All India Medical Students' Association (AIMSA) condemned the "insensitive and disrespectful" remarks against cadavers and body donors made by MBBS student Sejal Pawar at the Pranit More's standup ...

MERRILLVILLE | A full-scale Indiana University Northwest medical imaging effort involving human anatomical donors continues today at the Methodist Hospitals Southlake Campus. The process began Friday ...

While typically, any such event on social media ends with the apology being accepted, Pawar's video was following a long line of successive offensive jokes made in the name of comedy and thus the ire ...

New technologies have emerged for teaching anatomy to medical students, from full-size replica human models to virtual reality programs. But training with cadavers -- called donor dissection -- ...

Autopsy has a central role in shedding light on diseases, helping to uncover the cause of death. Tissue samples from various organs are sampled, stained, and examined under a light microscope to ...