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Monday, January 25, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Med students leave program
By Elaine Woodford
Kansan staff writer
Kevin Norris was looking forward to helping small communities in Kansas receive better health care once he got out of medical school.
But now he is not so sure.
Norris may opt to repay the scholarship money Kansas has given him to entice him to work in the state, despite legislative efforts to make his medical obligation more palatable.
There were 50 scholarships available to students last year.
Norris, a first-year medical student from Hutchinson, is one of 43 students at the University of Kansas and accepted a Kansas Medical Scholarship.
The scholarship, offered by the state, provides tuition money and a degree.
In return, the student agrees to serve
underserved area of the state, for four years.
A bill recently approved by the Kansas House Appropriations Committee would allow students to repay their time obligations by working part time in state hospitals, prisons or other state institutions instead of in underserved areas. Universities would not be included.
"This bill would broaden the methods in which students could meet their obligations," said State Representative Bunten, chairman of the committee.
Bunten said that former medical students could work $2\frac{1}{2}$ a week in a state institution, such as the State Prison in Lansing or the State Mental Hospital in Osawatomie, for four years to complete their obligation.
"It is difficult to say if this will help to attract students to the program," he said. "We may attract none. It's difficult to attract doctors to state institutions."
Many students who take advantage of the Kansas Medical Scholarship pay the money back to the state rather than serve the time obligation, Bunton said.
A lot of the students pay off the scholarship. The state scholarship repayment method paid all of the scholarship money to be offered in 1989," he said.
The money must be paid back in one lump sum plus the interest that would have accrued over four years of medical school. Students have 30 days after graduation to pay off the scholarships if they decide to leave
the program.
Norris said that with recent restrictions placed on the scholarship by the state, he would probably be one of the students who paid the money back.
"I have a real problem with the KMS program. They added a clause that restricts the areas of medicine a student may specialize in," he said
The bill now requires that students specialize in primary care medicine, which includes the area of general practice, pediatrics or areas of internal medicine.
Norris said that at one point he was looking forward to serving in a small community in Kansas. But now that he is learning what his options are, he doesn't think the program is a wise investment for medical students.
Frozen head has its day in court Cryonics keeps bodies frozen under a much debated practice
The Associated Press
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — When a cryonics company froza Dora Kent's head last month, it was with the hope that the 83-year-old woman could someday be revived and live in a new body without the disease that plagued her first life.
But while the members of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation cast themselves as visionaries, others consider cyronics the work of mad scientists.
Cryonics is the freezing of the dead in hopes that technology will someday advance to the point that
the bodies can be revived — a practice scoffed at by most medical authorities.
On Jan. 7, Alcor President Michael Darwin and five members were handcuffed and taken in for questioning, and the Riverside County coroner demanded to examine Kent's severed head.
The physician who signed Kent's death certificate, indicating she died from pneumonia, is under review by the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. The physician, a postgraduate research pathologist at the medical school, is an Alcor
member
The man who removed the woman's head — a research associate at the medical school — has been put on a paid leave of absence.
Alcor has refused to release Kent's head, and earlier this month received a temporary court order preventing the coroner from disturbing the frozen remains. A Feb. 1 hearing is set.
Coroner Ray Carrillo has found that few if any regulations exist to police cryonics firms.
field," said John Gill, executive officer of the state Cemetery Board, which licenses cemeteries and crematories.
Gill would like to see cryonies firms outlawed, but he added,
“Nothing is going to happen from a legislative and regulatory point of view until you have more proven abuses.”
"It's a big, new, unregulated
There have been abuses. In 1980, authorities, acting on the concerns of relatives, opened a tomb in Chatsworth, where four people were said to be frozen. Instead, they found rotting remains.
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