Dr. Harle never even requested to see Fuddy’s medical records. If Fuddy knew she had an irregular heartbeat and needed to do something about it, it was presumably because she was diagnosed by a doctor - who in the diagnosing of it would have also treated her. The story on its face makes no sense. And if any of that had been true, then why didn’t Harle even ask to see the medical records, which would have confirmed her conclusions MUCH better than second-hand hearsay?
But the fact is that what the USCG swimmers drew up from the water was something that had on a lifejacket that Fuddy never wore. If Harle did an autopsy on THAT, it has nothing to do with Fuddy herself. Fuddy was wearing an adult lifejacket. Where did she go - since it obviously wasn’t her that the USCG swimmer lifted from the water and that Harle presumably “autopsied”?
I don’t know maybe she did. I would guess that because the facts of the crash matched the evidence she didn’t feel it was necessary. And I assume she didn’t believe the family was lying to her.