Iraq: A Postmortem Exam

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10/13/2023Updated: 10/18/2023

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A postmortem exam, also known as an autopsy, is extremely important in understanding the human body and how it works. In many instances, it’s the only way to determine the cause of death or treatment failure. Postmortem exams give us information on disease processes and how to improve the medical treatment in the next patient with similar poorly understood findings.

Delbert Meyer

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Dr. Meyer is an NIH trained pulmonary physician in Sacramento who has spent 45-years managing pulmonary patients. He was at the forefront of the movement towards single subspecialty medical groups and developed the largest pulmonary group in the United States during the 1970s. He was editor of Sacramento Medicine, the official journal of the Sacramento County Medical Society for four years writing the monthly Editor’s Column. He sat on the editorial boards of California Physician and the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. He is a contributing editor to the St. Croix Review and his articles have appeared in California Physician, California Medicine, and Medical Sentinel. He holds the record for life-support maintenance of a muscular dystrophy patient on a ventilator for 29-years. He made physician home visits for the management of a severe respiratory failure patient on high doses of oxygen for 16-years without ventilator support. This patient continued to run his business, including court appearances, from his bedside.

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