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We Need More Autopsies, to Help Save the Living - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

When Italian authorities confirmed that James Gandolfini had just died in Rome of an apparent heart attack in 2013, many reports in…

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Hasnain says:

"Doctors take far too much confidence in scan results, feeling they see everything with certainty. They don’t. As a Florida coroner told me a few years ago, “We get this all the time. The doctors get our report and call and say, ‘But there can’t be a lacerated aorta. We did a whole set of scans.’

“We have to remind them that we held the heart in our hands.”"

Posted on 2015-05-19T02:22:52+0000