I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

by Chelsea Devantez

So it was shocking to this inner genius narrative to learn the actual truth: many of us were told our donors were medical students, I guess as a popular story for would-be parents. Some of these medical students were in fact future doctors, but some were other types of students...or not even students at all. Some of these donors were homeless men supporting themselves through donating. Some were mentally ill and living in institutions. Some of them were the very doctors running these studies themselves, who should have been in institutions.