Buried Answers. David Dobbs.
by Dobbs, David; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 74Family. Publisher: New York Times Magazine, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Alzheimer's disease -- Diagnosis | Autopsy | Diagnostic errors | Diagnostic imaging | Hospitals -- Administration | Pathology | Physicians -- AttitudesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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."
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