I used to work in a gross pathology lab and assisted on over 100 autopsies. Let me tell you, they take that stuff serious, or at least they did back in the 1970’s. I doubt things have gotten less serious, but the way they’ve been fudging I don’t know how bad things may have gotten in New York. So many bodies every day. and communists running the show.
Interesting, thanks. I was on a pre-med track for a couple of years and took an intercession internship in a path lab for 3 weeks, same time period. Observing three autopsies was one of the most instructive of college experiences. I decided medicine was not for me but that gave me a good sense for, as you say, how seriously they took things like this. But if there is number-fudging going on, I’d feel pretty confident it was some assistant or clerk, not a pathologist doing it. Too much hard work to get that specialization to not have pretty sound ethics.