Bring Back The Autopsy Summary

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Resurrecting Autopsy
The article, “Bring Back the Autopsy” addresses a significant issue occurring in the medical field with the lack of autopsies performed in hospitals with staggering less than ten percent. I agree on the stance the author is placing themselves in because of today’s doctors over reliance on technology, their decision only creates more problems with misdiagnosis the symptoms of the patient. Autopsies are reliable as an educational tool in discovering undiagnosed problems that may go unnoticed during the patient’s treatment and performing an autopsy adds more to the knowledge of medicine. While overdoses and false limb amputations received the most attention, sadly diagnoses remain a minor subject in the medical field due

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