The Body as Proof: Litigation Risks Involving Autopsies
Introduction Autopsy Liability Risks The national autopsy rate in the U.S. has fallen to about 8.5% of the nearly 7,000 deaths that occur each day, a rate that a research group working for the Department of Justice called “miserably low.” Because of the decline in the rate of autopsies performed, cause-of-death determinations for a number […]
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