you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[+] 114 points 1 year ago (22 children)
  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    How on Earth do you get that job? Like can I apply? I'm fascinated by the idea that a profession.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    A friend did it for a while, he runs a laser in surgery now and is much happier. He started as a mortician.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do you know what his job title is?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    He's a surgical laser technician now, he works for one company and gets lent out to hospitals to assist. No idea what company he works for specifically, he lives on the opposite coast and their medical networks are completely different from the ones here. The company I know by name for similar gigs is Agiliti.

    Now for gathering eyes from cadavers the positions you're looking for are in "organ procurement."

    In another life I worked for a nuclear pharmacy and met a lot of the other medical but not medical folks over the years.

  • source
  • parent
  • There are what we call OPOs, or organ procurement organizations. There are like 50, at least int he US. If you are in the US, and have certified skills that could help these, often you will receive scouting materials, you can also contact UNOS for information about ones local to you.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    I had a buddy just out of college who had a job like this. He said the job was shit because he spent most of his time driving between different sites to extract and deliver organs. He never said much about dealing with the recently deceased, that part didn't seem to bother him much, but traffic would set the dude off.

  • source
  • parent
  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Pretty sure the body still has to be alive for most organ donation... but maybe I'm wrong when it comes to eyes...

    But it sounds sketchy as fuck.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Who told you such a horrific thing? They take organs out after death yo. Here's some info sorta talking about this.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I know you are getting briggaded, but I also know for a fact you are at least partially right.

    My partner has a surgery dependent on a "very recent" donor being the requirement, not alive but like, about as close as you can get. It wasn't looking, good and I was considering taking out ads targeting 18-24 year old about how cool it is to ride motorcycles without helmets, but then we got lucky, so no need.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments