[Histonet] Placentas - Requests for Homeopathic remedy usage

[Vickroy, Jim]

We are occasionally getting requests for a patient to take home a placenta.   Our hospital policy does not require that placentas are sent to pathology unless requested by the clinician. The placentas that are being requested are ones that normally would not come to pathology for examination and are supposedly being used in homeopathic placental remedies.

Currently our hospital policy does not allow for tissue to be given to the patient to take home.   I am interested in how other hospitals are handling these requests.

Thanks for your time.

Jim

James Vickroy BS, HT(ASCP)

Surgical  and Autopsy Pathology Technical Supervisor
Memorial Medical Center
217-788-4046


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