Navy Doctor Allegedly Allowed Kids To Hold Dead Marine's Brain

Navy Doctor Allegedly Allowed Kids To Hold Dead Marine’s Brain

What in the world???

A Navy medical examiner took a Marine’s brain out of a specimen jar and let his children handle the organ, records show.

Dr. Mark E. Shelly has been fined $2,500 by the Virginia Board of Medicine and fired from his part-time job with the state medical examiner’s office. A spokeswoman said the Navy was also taking disciplinary action but has not yet decided what to do.

Shelley was taking the brain from a naval hospital in Camp Lejeune, N.C., to Portsmouth Naval Medical Center in Virginia when he stopped at his home in Virginia Beach. He let his children handle the brain and his wife took pictures.

In an April 3 letter to the Board of Medicine, Shelly acknowledged he used “extremely poor judgment,” The Virginian-Pilot reported Friday. He said he realized the impact his actions had on the family of the deceased and wrote that it was not his intention to be disrespectful to the Marine sergeant or his family.

Parenting gone WEIRD.

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