autopsy

> without any autopsy/DNA testwhere did you get that from?

In my own situation, I didn't know for sure that CPR wouldn't have helped until the autopsy came back.

Until there is a cause of death from a thorough autopsy, I think it's too early to say whether this is suspicious or not.

The rabbit recovered and survived until the researchers euthanized it for autopsy 6 weeks later.

A pathology professor once remarked to me that he had never done an autopsy on a man over 70 who didn't have prostate cancer.

The surgeon claimed that the destruction was precise, but the autopsy actually determined that damage was much more widespread than expected.

"The surgeon claimed that the destruction was precise, but the autopsy actually determined that damage was much more widespread than expected.

Actually without knowing the autopsy results it is the opposite - very suspicious.

> Also curious: why did his wife refuse to permit an autopsy?Islam has fairly strict burial customs, and many Islamic clerics have outlawed autopsies.

The dogs had been dead too long for an effective autopsy, considering it would be performed in a Third World country with limited access to laboratory resources.

They are the ones that "scoop out the brain" then mount them on slides, stain, etc. With whole skeletons, I'm not sure - usually after autopsy, the "parts" are either put back into the body or otherwise interred in a container.

BUT consider you are treating an 80year old man for pneumonia and when he dies the autopsy discovers he had undiagnosed prostate cancer - is that 'really' a medical error death?Then there are around 100,000 deaths due to hospital infections.

I think basically, the family agrees to an autopsy and there is a branch of medicine, pathology, which specializes in obtaining and preparing tissue samples, primarily for investigation into the causes, progression, and severity of disease.