Autopsy doctors, what was the biggest shock you discovered in a person's passing away?

I have a cousin who was so gaslit by doctors about her endometriosis that she started to believe she was delirious and hypochondriac. She was completely resigned to the fact that she would have to live in excruciating "phantom" pain forever. I was so worried about her that I researched and booked an appointment with a female gynaecologist two states over. Her reviews said she's a sweetheart who actually listens to her patients. A few examinations later, she was diagnosed. I'd never seen someone cry so much in my life. Having her pain validated and being told she wasn't crazy was much more important to my cousin than actually having the pain treated.

My dad donated his body to science. When he died, the med school sent a van, they picked him up, then did science with him. Dad was also late to everything, so we all said he would be late to his own funeral. Joke's on us. That asshole didn't even show up! The nerve.

The one about the baby was so sad, the mum finally got the child she wanted only to lose them to medical neglect

Why does people (doctors) just think that women are hypochondric with out checking their actual bodies for what they say hurts?

I got my first period at age 11 and it was a nightmare ever since. Cramping so bad that I would sometimes shake, sweat, then pass out. So much blood loss that I spent decades anemic. Then in my mid-30s I began bleeding continuously. As in having my period all day every day for THREE YEARS. It was so hard getting anyone to actually listen. It wasn't until I began hemorrhaging about once a week that I was finally referred to a specialist. He did a hysteroscopy and immediately recommended a hysterectomy. Within 6 months I had it done and oh hey look endo absolutely EVERYWHERE. The only things that were clear were my ovaries so yay no early menopause but it's ridiculous that it took 25 years of complaints and literally almost dying due to severe blood loss for anyone to take me seriously. Doctors want to blame every woman's complaint on our period but then when it's actually a problem with our period we're ignored.

My partner has pneumonia And the first hospital told him it was anxiety and “in his head” and if he came back in a few days they could prescribe him some anxiety medication- goes to another hospital Head doctor says he was “days from drowning in his sleep” Some doctors should have their licence removed

My mother passed in May 2023 and donated her body to science. She had this set up before I was born, but I am still waiting to get her ashes back. It really freaked me out...the thought of people poking around in her body. But I hope that her body helped them learn something about Dementia, breast cancer, and mental health. Today was my first Christmas without her and it's still hard

That one about the woman with endo hits close to home, especially with the doctors not taking her seriously. I had to suffer with PCOS (cysts on my ovaries) for a decade because my doctor would not take me seriously when I said that something was wrong about my period

The baby story is just heartbreaking, didn’t realize how dangerous pulling the baby out could be.

If you are choking, and you are alone, call 911 on your cell, then run and find the closest person. Leave your home/apartment. Knock on doors. Find someone walking their dog. Anything. The most important factor to not dying is alerting as many people to your distress as quickly as possible and hope that someone is trained to help

My dad went to doctors and hospitals for a year complaining about abdominal pain. Only to be told it was just anxiety. Only to find out he had stomach cancer. Advanced so much during that year, so when it was finally discovered it was too far gone that there was nothing they could do to save him anymore. My poor father suffered for a few months before he lost his fight. I personally can never forgive any of those doctors for dismissing my father's pain and just going with "he had anxiety ". I could of passibly still had my father here, he could have met his grand daughter. Complete negligence on all of their parts

Doctors -listen and HEAR women when they tell you about pain and illness.

I am an organ donor and have requested that my body be used for medical science. This also allows my family from having to pay for a funeral and a grave site.

Not an autopsy, but during my third year medical training. Observing a hip replacement. We all filed into the OR, couldn't see a patient because s/he was completely draped. The surgeon talked us through what he was doing and why; sawing, hammering, metal ball etc. And then he undraped the leg and began manipulating the limp to show us how it moves - up down this way that, like a piston. One word describes what happened next: Dominoes. All six students, including me, fainted in a heap. So dignified.

Why on Earth was a 'decorative' rifle mounted LOADED!?

the background is giving me a headache

Nearly in tears over the newborn? OMG IM BAWLING HERE.and no those doctors have a huge medical malpractice suit coming their way. That poor mother. Also, as someone who has endometriosis (well not anymore, I had a hysterectomy) I felt that first story. Ladies, if you got abdominal pain that doctors aren’t finding anything go to a gynecologist.

As someone with a liver transplant. i can really not thank people enough who are organ donors

Interesting content but the video movement is nauseating.

I suffered from abdominal pain from the age of 17, but I wasn’t diagnosed with endometriosis until I was 28. I had my hysterectomy at 30. And I have been diagnosed with a number of other chronic medical conditions since then. When I was 17, my doctor said that they could do exploratory surgery to see if there was something wrong, but it didn’t happen. I specifically asked if I would be able to have children, & he said yes. That was not true. I had suspected that I couldn’t get pregnant since my late teens. So I did warn my husband before we got married. I’m glad I was able to do that so there weren’t any surprises about that.