Dobbs, David,
Buried Answers. David Dobbs. - New York Times Magazine, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 74, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Buried Answers, April 24, 2005; pp. 40-45.
"Even in today's high-tech medical world, the low-tech hospital autopsy--not the crime-oriented forensic autopsy glorified in television, but the routine autopsy done on patients who die in hospitals--provides a uniquely effective means of quality control and knowledge. It exposes mistakes and bad habits, evaluates diagnostic and treatment routines and detects new disease. It is...the most powerful tool in the history of medicine, responsible for most of our knowledge of anatomy and disease, and it remains vital....Yet the hospital autopsy is neglected." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article provides a history of the use of hospital autopsies and discusses the reasons that "the United States now does post-mortems on fewer than 5 percent of hospital deaths, and the procedure is alien to almost every doctor trained in the last 30 years."
1522-3213;
Alzheimer's disease--Diagnosis
Autopsy
Diagnostic errors
Diagnostic imaging
Hospitals--Administration
Pathology
Physicians--Attitudes
AC1.S5
050
Buried Answers. David Dobbs. - New York Times Magazine, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 74, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Buried Answers, April 24, 2005; pp. 40-45.
"Even in today's high-tech medical world, the low-tech hospital autopsy--not the crime-oriented forensic autopsy glorified in television, but the routine autopsy done on patients who die in hospitals--provides a uniquely effective means of quality control and knowledge. It exposes mistakes and bad habits, evaluates diagnostic and treatment routines and detects new disease. It is...the most powerful tool in the history of medicine, responsible for most of our knowledge of anatomy and disease, and it remains vital....Yet the hospital autopsy is neglected." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article provides a history of the use of hospital autopsies and discusses the reasons that "the United States now does post-mortems on fewer than 5 percent of hospital deaths, and the procedure is alien to almost every doctor trained in the last 30 years."
1522-3213;
Alzheimer's disease--Diagnosis
Autopsy
Diagnostic errors
Diagnostic imaging
Hospitals--Administration
Pathology
Physicians--Attitudes
AC1.S5
050