Nurse Rivers's Autopsy Study

” that required them to stay overnight which includes a free meal and a warm bed for the night. They even got transportation, where they had to meet at a particular place with Nurse Rivers to get transported to the hospital. During the procedure the guys were told that the injection was a treatment but instead it was spinal tap that left them in pain and a severe headache that prolonged a long period of time. Once the men discovered that they was getting a spinal tap instead of treatment they were afraid to go back to the clinic. “It has been very difficult to get the patients in for X-rays” Wrote nurse Rivers. “Three refused to come in at all. Others offered various excuses. I repeat my visits hoping they will change their minds. They are afraid I am trying to get them in for a spinal punctures.”( Bad Blood 1993) By the end of that
Vonderlehr found every way possible to continue the study. He reached out to other physicians that took part previously in the study to come up with a plan how they will bring them to autopsy. Autopsies were an excellent source of providing data on the experiment. Nurse Rivers was back in business and was in charge of convincing families of the patients that were dying that once they decease for their bodies to be sent to the hospital for autopsies. Nurse Rivers reasons was that the autopsy needed to be conducted that way no one else in the family would present the same disease. Nurse Rivers was sure to keep in contact with all the patients that she knew was near death. Although Nurse Rivers was playing both sides so she won’t be look upon as a bad person, she was sure to inform the doctors that the autopsies had to be non-destructive. The bodies were not allowed to be disfigured or they would not receive another