Autopsy — auto opsis — literally means seeing for oneself. And the person doing the seeing should be clear-eyed — an independent specialist medical practitioner, with no emotional or professional vested interest in what happened to the patient. Autopsy studies typically show major discrepancies between actual findings and clinical diagnosis in a quarter to a third of cases. And in about a sixth of the cases, knowing about these hidden pathologies in life could have made differences to treatment that might have prevented death. In the UK in recent decades about one in six deaths have had an autopsy examination — a deceased person’s last gift to the living.Please read the whole thing. It is very informative.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
More from a pathologist …
… The way ‘COVID deaths’ are being counted is a scandal | Spectator USA. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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