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100			_aDobbs, David,
245		0	_aBuried Answers. _cDavid Dobbs.
260			_bNew York Times Magazine, _c2005.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2006. _nArticle 74, _pFamily, _x1522-3213;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.
500			_aOriginally Published: Buried Answers, April 24, 2005; pp. 40-45.
520			_a"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."
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650			_aAlzheimer's disease _xDiagnosis
650			_aAutopsy
650			_aDiagnostic errors
650			_aDiagnostic imaging
650			_aHospitals _xAdministration
650			_aPathology
650			_aPhysicians _xAttitudes
710			_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2006, _pFamily. _x1522-3213;
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