Physicians and nurses need to understand the process and procedures of an autopsy to be able to answer patients' and family members' questions. A family confronted with a difficult decision, such as ...

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Not counting patients who died of external causes, hospitals autopsied an average of just 3.9 percent of patients in 2014. Amid National Decline In Autopsies, Doctors Reaffirm The Procedure's ...

About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth. One major exception to the rarity of fetal autopsies is when pregnancy loss ends with criminal arrest. Arrests after pregnancy loss are not ...