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A forensic pathologist is a medical doctor who investigates unexpected, suspicious, unnatural and/or violent deaths. They usually do this by performing autopsies (a medical exam of a body after death). Their work involves both medical and legal matters.
Forensic pathology is a subspecialty of pathology that investigates non-natural or suspicious deaths, often referred to as reportable deaths. Forensic pathology focuses on determining the cause of death via postmortem examinations or autopsies.
Known as “death detectives,” forensic pathologists are specially-trained physicians tasked with determining the cause of sudden, unexpected, or violent deaths.
A forensic pathologist is a physician who specializes in the examination of deceased individuals to determine the cause and manner of death, particularly in cases involving suspicious, unexpected, or violent circumstances. Forensic pathologists undergo specialized training in forensic pathology during their medical education and residency training.
Forensic pathology is pathology that focuses on determining the cause of death by examining a corpse. A post mortem examination is performed by a medical examiner or forensic pathologist, usually during the investigation of criminal law cases and civil law cases in some jurisdictions.
Forensic pathology, per the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, is the application of the principles of medicine and pathology to the study of sudden, unexpected, suspicious, and violent death to determine the mechanism, cause, and manner of death.
Forensic pathologists, or medical examiners, are specially trained physicians who examine the bodies of people who died suddenly, unexpectedly or violently.
Forensic pathologists determine the cause and manner of death by use of the postmortem examination, or autopsy. The autopsy entails careful dissection of the body to search for injury patterns, disease, or poisoning that may point to the ultimate cause of death.
The forensic pathologist is a subspecialist in pathology whose area of special competence is the examination of persons who die suddenly, unexpectedly or violently. The forensic pathologist is an expert in determining cause and manner of death.
A forensic pathologist is a pathologist with special training and experience in forensic pathology who is actively engaged in medicolegal autopsies and death investigations.