Pathologists and Medical Examiners have historically (before COVID, at least) had the task of diagnosing true cause of death. Sometimes they can see that the death was iatrogenic, caused by the medical 'treatment.' At my first autopsy as a medical student, the 90+ year-old woman was found to have had serious coronary vascular disease (th…
Pathologists and Medical Examiners have historically (before COVID, at least) had the task of diagnosing true cause of death. Sometimes they can see that the death was iatrogenic, caused by the medical 'treatment.' At my first autopsy as a medical student, the 90+ year-old woman was found to have had serious coronary vascular disease (the scalpel made noise as it 'sawed' through the calcifications) and untreated, apparently undiagnosed, breast cancer. One of my fellow students asked how should could have lived so long with those conditions. The pathologist/Medical Examiner replied, "Probably because she didn't go to doctors."
Pathologists and Medical Examiners have historically (before COVID, at least) had the task of diagnosing true cause of death. Sometimes they can see that the death was iatrogenic, caused by the medical 'treatment.' At my first autopsy as a medical student, the 90+ year-old woman was found to have had serious coronary vascular disease (the scalpel made noise as it 'sawed' through the calcifications) and untreated, apparently undiagnosed, breast cancer. One of my fellow students asked how should could have lived so long with those conditions. The pathologist/Medical Examiner replied, "Probably because she didn't go to doctors."
But still, she made it to 90+.