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Only about 30% of U.S. deaths are followed by autopsies, and when postmortem findings are compared with ante-mortem diagnoses, glaring discrepancies often occur. Less than 50% of all cases of pulmonary embolism (in which a massive blood clot travels to the lungs) is correctly diagnosed before death. In 200 cases of bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, the diagnosis was wrong 33% of the time, and 37 cases of bleeding peptic ulcer were missed. Among 85 cases of liver abscess, 53 were unsuspected until the autopsy...
...country that has made much of the benefits of contemporary science, the familiar practice of performing an autopsy to aid post-mortem investigation seemed an odd cause for crisis. Yet in one of the bitterest religious controversies in years, bearded Hebrew scholars argued over the application of ancient laws to modern medicine...
...evening, Alan Krebs, a leader of the Revolutionary Contigent, accepted his "eight or ten" casualties stoically. "It was a possibility that we would break right through those police," another Revolutionary explained. "But we were playing it by ear and decided not to." Other revolutionaries practiced karate during the post-mortem...
...would be hard to find a literary collaboration more ill conceived than this one-a psychoanalytic post-mortem conducted on a U.S. President by two men who were admittedly prejudiced against their subject, and based on second-or third-hand information. Together, they framed a savage posthumous assault that depicts Thomas Woodrow Wilson as a Messianic but effeminate zealot hovering on the brink of insanity. It is all the more remarkable because it is not the work of some pop-psych practitioner but bears the name of the founder of psychoanalysis himself. On this showing, if not on others, Freud...
...Indigestion." When the President wound up his 75-minute speech, he was rewarded with polite applause-even though many in his audience had sat through the last half-hour in a glazed slouch or, in a few cases, deep slumber. Snapped Senate Minority Leader Ev Dirksen at a post-mortem press conference: "It was too long. It gave me mental indigestion." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford criticized the President for trying to finance both "rifles and ruffles...