Audit of Willed Body Program implicates former director.
Audit of Willed Body Program implicates former director.
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意志身体计划的审计涉及前任董事。
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10.1136/ewjm.174.2.93
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2001
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F. Charatan
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加州大学欧文分校（UCI）花了一年半的时间完成了一份长达29页的遗嘱机构项目审计报告，指责其前主任克里斯托弗·S·布朗。
审计发现缺乏监督，记录保存不善，未能按照家属的意愿将遗体归还家属，以及财务违规行为。最后一项交易包括以5125美元的价格向亚利桑那州凤凰城的一个研究小组提供7具尸体脊柱。这笔款项是支付给一家公司，大学健康服务，不隶属于UCI和拥有杰弗里弗雷泽，布朗的商业伙伴。
审计还发现，布朗和弗雷泽拥有的哈里运输公司多收了几百美元的尸体费。
捐赠的尸体未经UCI的许可，被用于弗雷泽公司在UCI的遗嘱尸体停尸房开设的私人解剖课，每名学生收费175美元。
布朗向那些希望归还火化后的捐赠者骨灰的家庭收取600美元的费用。三个家庭支付了骨灰归还的费用，但没有记录表明UCI收到了这笔钱。
不良的记录保存使UCI审计员无法对1995年1月1日至1999年8月11日捐赠给遗嘱机构计划的441具尸体中的320具进行核算。由于据称尸体被放错了地方，幸存者对UCI、布朗和弗雷泽提起了大约20起诉讼。
1999年9月，UCI解雇了布朗。目前还没有对他提出指控，但橙子县地方检察官办公室正在调查这些指控。
UCI采取的纠正措施包括用一名更有经验的殡仪业者取代前殡仪馆馆长布朗，担任项目主任，并制定书面政策和程序。UCI医学院院长托马斯C塞萨里奥已任命外科教授彼得劳伦斯与一个由教师组成的咨询委员会一起监督该项目。
美国医学院的遗嘱机构计划每年收集约15，000具尸体。加州波莫纳市西部健康科学大学意愿身体项目的前经理菲利普·盖耶特说，需求远远超过了供应。
去年审计开始后，切萨里奥说，
将他们的身体用于医学科学和教育的人已经做出了最高贵的礼物之一，我们的意愿身体计划不仅要按照最高的专业标准运作，而且要尊重这些捐赠者及其家人的最高标准。
The University of California at Irvine (UCI), in a 29-page audit of its Willed Body Program that took more than a year and a half to complete, has faulted its former director, Christopher S Brown.
The audit uncovered lack of supervision, poor record keeping, failure to return remains to families in accordance with their wishes, and financial irregularities. The last included supplying 7 cadaver spines to a research group in Phoenix, Arizona, for $5,125. The payment was made to a company, University Health Services, not affiliated with UCI and owned by Jeffrey Frazier, a business associate of Brown's.
The audit also found overcharges of several hundred dollars by Harry's Transportation, a company owned by Brown and Frazier for carrying cadavers.
Donated cadavers were used, without UCI's permission, in a private anatomy class run in UCI's Willed Body morgue by Frazier's company Replica, which charged $175 per student.
Brown charged families who desired a return of their cremated donors' ashes a $600 fee. Three families paid to have ashes returned, but there is no record that UCI received the money.
Poor record keeping prevented the UCI auditors from accounting for 320 of the 441 cadavers donated to the Willed Body Program from January 1, 1995, through August 11, 1999. As the result of alleged misplaced bodies, about 20 lawsuits have been filed by survivors against UCI, Brown, and Frazier.
UCI fired Brown in September 1999. No charges have been brought against him, but the Orange County District Attorney's office is investigating the allegations.
Corrective measures taken by UCI include replacing Brown, a former funeral director, with a more experienced mortician as program director and written policies and procedures. Thomas C Cesario, UCI College of Medicine Dean, has appointed Peter Lawrence, a professor of surgery, to oversee the program, in conjunction with an advisory committee of faculty members.
Willed Body programs based at US medical schools collect about 15,000 bodies annually. The demand far outstrips the supply, according to Philip Guyett, former manager of the Willed Body Program at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California.
After the audit began last year, Cesario said,
The people who will their body to medical science and education have made one of the most noble gifts possible, and it is absolutely essential that our Willed Body Program operate not only in accordance with the highest professional standards, but also with the highest standards of respect for these donors and their families.