Who will perform my autopsy?
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Autopsy and Case Reports. ISSN 2236-1960. Copyright © 2014. This is an Open Access article distributed of terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided article is properly cited. “My friend was ill, I cared for him; he died, I dissected him.” Ascribed to various French physicians
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