There is a chasm between what is seen by clinical medicine doctors and surgeons and what is seen by the forensic pathologist. This is often driven home when you see a “TV news medical expert” giving their opinion on a case of forensic interest that happens to be in the news, because they often get it wrong. Forensic pathologists see injuries that are almost never seen by those working in hospitals because the body is dead at the scene and such bodies with immense and unsurvivable trauma do not make it to the hospital. Instead they go straight to the county morgue. The following is an example of this:
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