Let's talk about what the difference is between the death certificate and an autopsy because they're not the same. And in a case of wrongful death, I get a lot of questions about the difference between a death certificate and an autopsy. So let's get right into it.
So a death certificate, what is that?
The death certificate is when someone dies, the doctor who is there at the time of death fills out a death certificate, which is the doctor's best educated opinion as to why the person died. And that's left to a lot of the discretion of the doctor based upon the doctor's examination and maybe review of records and the patient's history. But that's all that is. It's not an examination of the body, it's not an autopsy.
So let's talk about an autopsy.
An autopsy is done by a specific type of doctor called a pathologist. And that pathologist actually, and hope I'm not getting too graphic here where they actually examine the whole body, they open the body up and they look at all the internal organs, they look at the brain and they the able to try to make some educated opinions based upon a thorough review of the body as to what the cause of death is.
So while as a death certificate is piece of paper filled up by a doctor, based upon that doctor's best educated opinion, an autopsy on their hand is a more thorough evaluation of the body. So in cases of wrongful death, it can be important to be able to obtain an autopsy.
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