Emily Jeziorski is one of MedCure’s Education Directors. Her role is to help educate hospice and other end-of-life care professionals on how to best assist and support their patients through the whole body donation process.Emily joined the MedCure family in 2019 after a career as a nonprofit event coordinator and a manager of coffee shops…
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When making the decision to donate your body to science, there are many organizations you can choose from. It is important to research each organization that you are considering to ensure that they operate legally and ethically and will treat both you and your loved ones with the utmost dignity and respect. One way to…
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The decision to be a body donor (or an organ donor) is not just a personal decision, but one that forces us to face our own mortality. No one likes to sit around and think about death, so we put it off, sometimes until it’s too late. But the truth is, having a plan in…
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While registering to be a whole body donor is an amazing and altruistic choice, your decision doesn’t end there. Some people may not realize that, after your donation has been utilized, MedCure arranges for a cremation on behalf of your family. This gives body donors a wide variety of options for what they’d like to have done…
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Everyone will experience a wound at some point in their life, be it a scrape, a small cut, or a surgical incision. What people once consider to be a life threatening injury in ancient times might seem minor by our modern standards, thanks to the many advances in wound care that the medical community has made over…
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Source: Adobe Stock In April of 1969, a patient by the name of Haskell Karp was in desperate need of a new heart. Karp, who was suffering from severe heart failure, had undergone a surgery to attempt to repair his damaged heart, but the surgery had failed, leaving Karp in critical condition. The surgical team,…
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Doris PoulakosOur mom, Doris Poulakos, passed away in August of 2017 at the age of 93. She loved anything purple, reading, sewing, playing board games, and listening to opera!Doris had a great interest in shipwrecks and the Great Lakes, and loved the option MEDCURE offered for having her ashes scattered at sea after body donation…
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One of the most amazing and impactful medical advancements in the last century was the development of life-saving organ transplant techniques. Over 28,000 people in America receive much needed organ transplants every year to help save or improve their lives. However, as of August 2017, approximately 116,000 people in this county were actively waiting for…
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The practice of dentistry has a long history, dating back as far as 2600 BC. However, these early methods are virtually unrecognizable as dentistry by our modern standards, and may even be considered barbaric by many today. One of the earliest discovered examples of a dental filling dates back nearly 6500 years ago and was…
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Source: AdobeStock While doctors had been experimenting with human blood transfusions since the early 1800s, the practice was largely considered dangerous within the medical community prior to the start of the 20th century. The earliest procedures had a low success rate and often resulted in the patient’s death. Some physicians began mixing a portion of the recipient’s blood with…
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