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My auntie is a coroner and she was told to expect nothing more than a gunshot wound to a pregnant female. Which is what it was but the bullet had killed the woman and 9 month developed baby who had the bullet pass through and end up in the palm of its hand like it was holding it.—u/alfredlloyd
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Assisted with a post-mortem when I was a student. Female patient died in her 40s. Her medical history had extensive complaints of abdominal pains, one Dr even referred to her as a “hypochondriac” and others commented on apparent anxiety. Opened her abdomen and she had extensive scar tissue, she was absolutely massacred inside from endometriosis.
She suffered for decades and never got referred for a laparoscopy. She didn’t have f—king anxiety, she had a medical condition.—u/adumberscully
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When I was young I knew a 19 year old guy that was found dead in his apartment. The landlord was convinced it was an OD. Family asked for an autopsy. It was TYPE 1 DIABETES! He was undiagnosed. Probably felt like hell and went into shock and died. Very sad case if he had gotten medical care in time, he probably would have lived. And then the police sent the bill for the autopsy to the family to add insult to injury—u/RetrieverTrainer
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Not exactly an autopsy per se, but it was a patient found unresponsive, with CPR in progress by EMS. The man was clearly homeless, based on his appearance and smell. he reportedly had not been seen for several days by his friends, and was eventually found behind a fast food restaurant dumpster.
We were briefly able to get a pulse back, and when the nurse cut his pants off to place a catheter we saw the cause: He had fashioned some sort of makeshift c*ckring out of the neck of a plastic bottle. It was way too tight and completely cut off the circulation, the penis was fully black and necrotic.
I did a bedside ultrasound and found his abdomen full of free fluid (which is bad); most likely his bladder had ruptured from being unable to urinate for days. His labs suggested he was in septic shock and full-blown renal failure as well. He did not survive much longer than that.—u/Iamthewarthog
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During my internship rotation a couple of years back, a 40 year old guy came in because he ‘suddenly collapsed’ while drinking with friends. He came in unresponsive, mouth bleeding, and not breathing, so we had to intubate him. For some reason, the endotracheal tube (the stiff tube placed inside the trachea to help the patient breathe) won’t go in, but we managed to suction copious amounts of blood clots.
After CPR (still with unsuccessful intubation so we had to bag him with a face mask), the patient was declared dead, and diagnosed with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. During the autopsy, they found out that the guy was apparently shot by a gun from the top of the head (the entry wound was obscured by his hair, and was barely bleeding at all), and the bullet somehow went through the back of the guys throat and made a hole behind the base of the tongue, which the endotracheal tube kept slipping into.—u/geekglassesglaceon