30 Disturbing Things Autopsy Doctors Found During Examinations

I shadowed a medical examiner several times but the weirdest thing I ever saw still kind of haunts me. There was a woman that died suddenly and had all these bruises on her body. There were detectives and cops all around us because they thought it was a case of domestic violence. However, she was schizophrenic and was not on any meds. During one of her episodes, she would beat herself violently and self-inflict all of these bruises and wounds on her. But the way she died was crazy.

She beat herself so much that these bruises developed huge blood clots and broke off into the blood stream. They eventually ended up in her lungs (pulmonary embolism). We opened up her lungs and they were just full of blood clots. Her legs were full of them too.

She basically beat herself so much that she suffocated. It was so odd.

Did a rotation through the morgue during med school. ended up helping perform an autopsy on a younger man. should have checked the wrist band and seen that the name matched up with all the "RIP ___ ____" posts on facebook about a kid I knew from h**h school.

I used to work in the ER as a unit assistant (aka nurses' b***h) so we always had the worst jobs. It was maybe my second or third day and I had to go take a dead body of a little old lady to the morgue with another veteran unit assistant.

We rolled her back there, no problem, then we had to lift and slide her from the stretcher to the examining table in the morgue (only worked that job 6 months don't remember all the lingo). So she is in the body bag, but I feel her arm and use that to lift/push her. As soon as I start lifting she lets out a big groan. I almost had a heart attack. I thought she was still alive in there. I panicked and yelled "OH MY GOD WHAT DO WE DO!!!"

Later it was explained to me that it was just the air coming out of her lungs as we re-positioned her. But it was scary as h**l at the time.

The book Homicide: A Year on the k*****g streets, is one of the books that the shows The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Streets are based on.

It is written by David Simon who spent a year imbedded in the Homicide Unit of the Baltimore PD.

So they went to a m****r scene in the middle of summer, and the body was not discovered for a long time. So the body was bloated and swollen. As the ME was loading it on a gurney to move it, the Detective says, "he is going to burst on you", The ME says, naw I got this.

Sure enough the body burst, so of course pretty much everyone in the room starts throwing up.

The detective steps out side and sees one of the cops that had just been in the room eating a massive Roast Beef sandwich. The detective was staring in awe and the cop says, it is extra rare I don't want my bread to get soggy.

The detective said, lord cops are sick f***s.

My mother is a pediatrician, and had a very amusing story from her med school days.

So back then, she and her co-students lived together in a house with a house mother. Not quite a dorm or sorority, but similar. One day, they had spend the whole day dissecting cadavers - specifically the chest area. Everyone is quite hungry by dinner time. Well, in comes the house mother with a huge plate of.... ribs. The whole group just noped the heck out of there.

My sister works as a histologist and has helped out for one or two autopsies. She told me a story of how when they were doing an autopsy on this guy his bowels were extremely swollen, hard and stuk together. On further examination, he had swallowed a fish bone which pierced his stomach, into his intenstines and skewered them together, leading to his death.

Not in the trade but long ago, my friend's mom managed a large hospital that included the county morgue. The cases she said were worst were drowning victims, like when the body isn't recovered for a while. People swell up a lot, and the smell is unique. Iirc JFK Jr fell into this category.

Med student friend said the body you *don't* want to learn on is that of someone who was morbidly obese. Basically you're learning anatomy, but there's a foot of fat between you and the pancreas.

I ended up working at the hospital mentioned above; ppl in the morgue line of work become so inured to it. I remember walking down by the morgue one time. In a lab room there was a pathologist sitting at one end of a table eating his lunch...at the other end, part of a leg he was dissecting.

I've never performed an autopsy, but there was one time when I was in college we had an anatomy lap and apparently I missed the part the week before when the professor told us we would be looking at cadavers so the next week i walked in and saw all these blue bags on the table zipped up.

I didn't even think that much about them until the professor told us to gather around one of the tables. Then he unzipped it and there was just a dead body there. I was totally unprepared for that so I was like "whoa man." Then at the same time he unzipped the bag, the vent under the table turned on and it sounded like the dead body was roaring.

I had just watched the walking dead the night before so I thought it was coming alive and I let out a load scream like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj6_98tq4mY).

Everyone turned and looked at me, but no one said anything or laughed and then everyone just went back to watching the professor. It was crazy.

Not my story but a cop told me once that he went on a call to a house because it seemed like it had been abandonned. He goes up to the window to look in and cant really see, its to dark and it looks like a garbage bag is over the window. So they end up breaking down the door and get swarmed by thousands of flys, turns out the lights weren't off but there were flys all over them. The stench was horrible the body had been decomposing for so long it fused to the couch and when they tried to move the body they pulled the arm and it ended up ripping off.

I work with thousands pigs so it's not uncommon to see some dead. Normally we call someone to get the bodies and he'll come within a day. However once that Didnt happen and a pig was left for 5 days in the summer heat.

The sow had turned from pink to completely green like shrek, you could see where the veins were from the discoloration. it was bloated like a balloon, it's pupils turned White and foamy blood had seaped out the nose and mouth and one point. But in later days it was all dried and extra nasty.

When we get rid of the pigs we'd load in on a machine and push it into a pickup truck (burned the bodies)

So we go to wrap a wire around the leg and pushing into the body was like squeezing a wet spongy, it oozed liquid and the tissue ripped very easily. The wire kept slipping off the leg because it kept tearing. We realized that even if the wire could grasp it the machine couldn't support such a bloated body. It's a loading bay Thats on a tilt so the machine would tip over because of the weight. Unsure how to get the body in the truck we tried tying a rope around the head and the trucks hitch, pulled it close to the ledge eyes bulging even more. And then pushed it in the truck

It Was really disgusting but at the farm there is a lot of death so you have to get used fast, emptying buckets of dead pigglets is also nasty.

sorry if my writing is confusing english isn't my first language.