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MauricioEiji1030 karma

  1. Recently I examined a fetus that had no heart, as a consequence the entire upper body did not develop. It was basically only legs.
  2. In one case I could not find any cause of death during the autopsy, I reported it as an unknown cause of death. Days later, the police found out the deceased had been choked with a pillow by her granddaughter. Just to clear things up, I deal with non-violent deaths, the violent ones are done by police doctors, but sometimes a case comes in as a natural cause of death and during the autopsy (or later, as above) we find out that it was not natural.
  3. The consistency is akin to a hard pudding or flan. Don't really smell like anything, but we use maks during the autopsy.
  4. Nothing really strange in the stomach, but once I found a whole steak lodged in the trachea of a person who choked.
  5. No particular cause of death, but corpses in decomposition are always bad.
  6. I quote Tyrion Lannister: "In my own bed, at the age of 80, with a belly full of wine and a girls mouth around my c**k."
  7. Suicide.
  8. I've seen some cases of car accidents that were pretty nasty.
  9. I saw a aneurism that burst to the lung and the person bled to death from the mouth/nose, that was pretty weird.

I can point you to an article to which I contributed if you'd like. I can also scan my Pathology Board Certificate, if it is required.

MauricioEiji965 karma

It was not a T-bone, lol. It was about 15x10 cm in area and about 1 cm thick. It was all folded up and molded against the walls of the trachea. And as my technician noted at the time, the man had no teeth. Pardon me the dark humor, but he bit off more than he could chew.

MauricioEiji821 karma

I don't recall any case particularly ironic in itself, but once I did 2 autopsies in a day. Both patients complained of heartburn and chest pain, then suddently died. The first was attended by a cardiologist who thought it was a heart attack and the second by a gastroenterologist who thought it was an ulcer. The first patient had a peforated ulcer and the second had a heart attack.

MauricioEiji530 karma

  1. Yes, when they are decomposing it's unavoidable, there is always some maggots, bugs and eggs. But I have also performed an autopsy on a man who had fly larvae in a ulcer in his groin when he was alive.
  2. It's hard to judge, ocasionally you see a woman who might have been pretty when she was alive, but that's just the thing, dead people are just different, they could have been supermodels when they were alive, dead bodies are just dead bodies I guess. Maybe I'm just desensitized.
  3. I've never seen a body move, but before my time, there was a case in which after the organs in the torso had been removed, when they were opening the head to remove the brain, the body jerked violently. The professor performing the autopsy and the resident that was with him burst out of the room in panic. Turns out the saw the technician was using was short-ciruting and had sent an electric jolt throught the body. The technicians still laugh about the look on the professor's face.

MauricioEiji483 karma

You could make it slightly wavy so the cut comes out like crap and the student gets chewed?