Autopsy Service at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
- 23 January 1947
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 236 (4) , 130-131
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194701232360402
Abstract
IN 1932 the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital staff established standard autopsy procedures that have led to a consistently high percentage of permissions for post-mortem examination. The essential features of the program are as follows: A hospital staff that agrees that all deaths be followed by a request for post-mortem examination. Precedence is given to the obtaining of permission for autopsy because of the fleeting nature of the opportunity to give a valuable service to the family of the deceased — I have never known a family to be antagonized by a request for autopsy. A department of pathology ready to . . .Keywords
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- Post-Mortem Examination in Rural General PracticeNew England Journal of Medicine, 1941