Some friends and I were sitting around complaining about our various debts and I remembered a little piece of information I had heard about. Some medical universities would pay you big money(the figure I recall was $10,000 and I want to say it was the University of Chicago) if you let them remove a toe and sew it back on. If this is true I want in. I would be out of debt and very much in the black again. Does anyone know if this is true? And if so, how do I get in on this action?
I just want to clarify that I am dead serious. I am not crazy,I am an adult(22), and that I could really use this money. So if anyone has any info, please share. I figured this would be the best place to go.
Doesn’t really seem like the medical school would be getting 10,000 bucks worth of benifit from that. That particular lesson in toe reatachment would be a good chunk of a student’s tuition right there.
A friend of mine lost the last part of his ring finger in an accident at work. His medical bills were covered, and he got $5000 from an insurance policy he has. Every time they are short on money, his wife gets ideas.
That is accidental death and dismemberment insurance and I work with those plans a lot. Some companies offer several different plans that employees can pay for. Wouldn’t you feel like a real goober if your eye got poked out and you just had the basic AD&D coverage rather than some of the better plans?
Walter Sobchak: You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.
The Dude: Yeah, but Walter…
I financed much of my living expenses in university by participating in medical studies, wherein they give you a drug and take your blood at regular intervals in order to determine how quickly it enters your bloodstream. This netted me between $900 and $2000 a shot, and I was able to participate about once every two months.
While there I heard rumours about the $10,000 for a toe routine; the more baroque version was that a guy told me his brother had participated in a study where they flew him to Switzerland(!), anesthetized him, amputated his toe, then sewed it back on, again for $10,000, then flew him back. Another story said that they would stop your heart for a few seconds and start it up again. The consensus among the participants was that we would gladly do the toe one, but the heart one was going too far.
