various images from knight’s forensic pathology (third edition, 2004)

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various images from knight’s forensic pathology (third edition, 2004)
choosing to be a doctor (a forensic pathologist specifically) at 18 is really funny to me because i’ve essentially decided “yeah what i need is 8 more years of very intense schooling and 5 years of training all so i can cut open dead bodies for a living at age like 31”
like i understand that’s just how it works but i’ve chosen the job path of doom and despair
Autopsies are mandated for sudden deaths in seemingly healthy people. They did an autopsy on Renee Good and George Floyd despite both deaths being filmed. I trust medical examiners over coroners and sheriff systems. Minneapolis uses medical examiner Andrew Baker, he was the one who did George Floyd’s autopsy. Forensic pathologists search for the original or underlying disease/injury/event that led to a string of unbroken events over an unlimited time that eventually led to death. In George Floyd’s case he had atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease, but this would not have caused him to die at this time, so the string of events is interrupted by the kneeling. This is called the ‘but-for’ paradigm, i.e “but for heart disease this doesn’t happen”. Non-natural occurrences are given preference in cause of death, so the fentanyl would have taken preference to the heart disease. However a condition that is separate and distinct from the presumed underlying events breaks the chain and serves as an intervening cause of death anatomical and/or physiological(this would be the police brutality). Therefore the actual cause of death was Chauvin kneeling on him. Which seems to be the testimony he gave the court, and why I trust him to give the autopsy for Alex Pretti.
the shows im interested influence my life so much that i physically cannot imagine myself pursuing a job that isnt something to do forensics or mortuary science after watching hannibal. like my silly gay cannibalism show is genuinely affecting the trajectory of my life
my dream job is to be a forensic psychologist
Ok.. how about a forensic pathologist Snape? But then again maybe i'm just projecting lol