AUDIO: DOCTOR KEPT SOUVENIRS OF HIS SURGERIES
A world-renowned surgeon collected and stored body parts from thousands of patients over 25 years in breach of legal and ethical guidelines. Dr. Derek McMinn, who pioneered the hip resurfacing technique that doctors used to resurrect Andy Murray’s tennis career, kept the bones of at least 5,200 patients he operated on, despite having no license to store body parts or proper consent from patients. Nurses, staff and doctors at the Edgbaston Hospital, in Birmingham, where the surgeon carried out the majority of his operations, were apparently aware of what he was doing. McMinn admitted to hospital officials last year that he had been keeping patient bones at his seven-bedroom farmhouse in Worcestershire, as well as at his office in Birmingham, with full knowledge of his colleagues. He said he had kept the bones for his retirement.
* Or they actually went to Rascal, his German Shepherd.
* Never throw away the bones. Make soup stock out of them. The Food Network taught me that.
* Not sure about this, but is a bone collector usually called a boner?
* Boy, bone-collecting insane surgeon season comes earlier and earlier every year.
* Dang! It’s too late for this to be an episode of “Bones”.
CLIP: “Tonight, on “‘Hoarders'”: (the Psycho music)
