13 Shocking Autopsy Stories From Medical Examiners That'll Send Shivers Down Your Spine

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13 Shocking Autopsy Stories From Medical Examiners That'll Send Shivers Down Your Spine
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Do not, I repeat, DO NOT read this on a full stomach.

"When I was in EMS training, we had to do [medical examiner] rotations to learn gross anatomy. The ME told us of a case they had the previous month where they had an unattended death in a rental property of a single fortysomething person with no known medical history. The autopsy was unremarkable until the labs came back: carbon monoxide poisoning."

"Turned out his heating system had a weird malfunction that would emit massive amounts of CO. In this case the autopsy saved someone else's life as the heating system was fixed to avoid it from potentialy killing the next renter.""Back in gross anatomy, I was cutting into my guy's butt. This guy had so much fat. If you didn't know fat is yellow.

"Then, I slice open the liver , and boom, it was about 80% replaced by a nasty, nasty abscess. I'm talking liters of pus. He didn't have a fever and they didn't see anything on imaging, clinical, or even blood cultures. We were never sure if the heart issues maybe worsened before he got to become septic, but that is still the largest liver abscess I've seen in my life.""A lady with cirrhosis died and when she arrived, she had a [swollen] belly.

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