What factors do you think influence a relatives decision to agree to a clinical

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What factors do you think influence a relatives decision to agree to a clinical autopsy versus a forensic autopsy?
Do you think that the medical profession (particularly physicians and pathologists) are presenting a presuasive case for clinical autopsies? What factors do you think influence a relatives decision to agree to a clinical autopsy versus a forensic autopsy?
Do you think that the medical profession (particularly physicians and pathologists) are presenting a presuasive case for clinical autopsies?
Do you think that the medical profession (particularly physicians and pathologists) are presenting a presuasive case for clinical autopsies?

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Clinical Autopsy : It is also termed as Pathological autopsy, is carried out to diagnose the disease which has caused the morality when ante-mortem efforts have failed. Many a times clinical autopsy is done despite cause death having been established ante mortem, to study the disease process situ, enriching medical knowledge .

Medico-legal or forensic autopsy : It is performed with the aim of providing answer to question about identity, cause death, circumstances death, etc., thus helping the law enforcing agencies to solve the crime. Although the procedure of both the autopsies is same, they differ from each other in many aspects.

Usually the clinical autopsy is performed by pathologists and medico-legal autopsy by forensic expert.

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