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“ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No.…

— Krisanta Bella

“About the same number of people die each year from medical errors as from automobile accidents. Heart disease and cancer kill the most people…

— Fred Trotter

“A rather insistent cross-examiner asks a pathologist whether he can be absolutely sure that a certain patient was dead before he began the autopsy.…

— Ian McEwan

“Odd Thing to Read After an Autopsy: “He was in much better health than we expected.” Well, yeah … except for the DEAD part.”

— Teresa Medeiros

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she…

— Stanislav Grof

“The autopsy took place in the morning and was the best argument for the buddy systemI had ever seen. Never live alone, I told…

— David Sedaris

A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you…

— Herman Boerhaave

In Alzheimer's [disease] the mind dies first: Names, dates, places-the interior scrapbook of an entire life-fade into mists of nonrecognition.

— Matt Clark

In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we…

— Claude Bernard

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

— Clara Shih

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series…

— Robert Gottlieb

I had a stroke in 2006. I thought: 'This is it.'

— Gareth Thomas