I apologize that I did not see this post from you to someone else in the thread before I responded to you. And I am sorry for your loss of a friend.
I am assuming that you meant in this post that you are a medical professional. Does it concern you that the death certificate indicated that he weighed over 60 pounds more than what his admittance documents indicated just nine days before?
When my own grandmother went into the hospital, she had no cardiac history. But they filled her with so much fluid that she gained nearly 10 pounds and her heart went into an arrhythmia from the electrolyte imbalance. Needless to say this killed her. I am sure that this happens fairly frequently.
Since no autopsy was ever performed on Dr. Atkins we will never really know for sure what killed him. A receptionist that worked with my wife and was her friend announced that she had spinal cancer and would be taking time off for chemotherapy. Two weeks later she was dead from the treatment.
In a conversation with the family at the funeral my wife was told that her death certificate said that she died from spinal cancer. Something about the situation the way that the family recounted the sequence of events didn't sound right to my wife and she brought it up with a doctor that she worked with. They convinced the family to let the doctor review her charts. Things really did not add up. They then convinced the family to have her body exhumed.
The lady never had spinal cancer or any other form of cancer. Her breast implants had leaked and the silicone gel had pooled in places near her spine and the x-ray confused the specialist. Chemo was started with no other confirmation of the presence of cancer. It was a needless death as the leaked silicone was not a threat to her life.
Condolences on your grandmother’s ending. Hate hearing this.
Can assure you, in re: Atkins— that he went into a coma while in neurosurgery to correct/remove a blood clot, and speculating here— reason for the coma being the clot that moved into brain vasculature elsewhere.
Strict BMI— yeah, overweight- he ate well, but smart. The BMI has been hone down to near unachievable levels for average person to attempt. All life is a balance, or... should be.
Regards.