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In any case, health insurance doesn't cover autopsy. Turns out its classified as postmortem to deny insurance coverage. there was an hour long special on NPR sometime in 2014.
If we increase the rate of autopsies, the higher degree of accountability for doctors will lead to higher stress levels in the profession. The rate of suicide in physicians is already far above average. The US should be doing more autopsies, but we should increase them in a way that supports the profession, rather than giving our culture another way to point fingers at doctors and say "your mistake killed that person".
How do I _prevent_ an autopsy from being performed on me? As a cryonicist, I find what is being advocated for very scary...
"In the United States, we usually don’t autopsy people unless the cause of death is mysterious or foul play is suspected." In any case, health insurance doesn't cover autopsy. Turns out its classified as postmortem to deny insurance coverage. there was an hour long special on NPR sometime in 2014.
Given no chance of "recovery" from the condition, there's no health interest to the subscriber, right?
I understand that there are 1400 different brands of over-the-counter medication that contain acetaminophen. That's what destroyed my father's liver.
He was taking tylenol for neuralgia. It harmed his liver so bad he had severe jaundice. He was barely able to walk and was completely unable to speak.
He died at the age of 68.
"Doctors, meanwhile, learned humility. If you’re a doctor, it’s one thing to know, as an abstract fact, that 10 or 20 percent of patients who seemed to die of heart attack actually died from pulmonary embolism. It is quite another to have a pathologist dissect one of your patients and tell you No, this woman you took care for 25 years, and whose husband you pass on the street each day, did not die of heart attack; sh…
How do we remove opportunities for human error in medicine and health care?
"Not really; not always; and sometimes not even with causes of death you’d think would show up easily in a good scan. Doctors take far too much confidence in scan results, feeling they see everything with certainty. They don’t. As a Florida coroner told me a few years ago, “We get this all the time. The doctors get our report and call and say, ‘But there can’t be a lacerated aorta. We did a whole set of scans.’" I wo…