Which is to say, almost certainly not real, but fun to think so.
Yeah, I saw that before I ever went to law school. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, but it didn't happen recently.
but it didn't happen the first time recently.
Is it traditional to wait to start the autopsy until someone is debrained? Wouldn't that be part of the autopsy?
I always assumed some sort of serial killer or extremely traumatic death was involved.
I was wondering about that a bit myself. If the dialog is real, I think it'd have to be that the doctor on the stand was not the only person working on the autopsy. Someone else did the large-scale cutting up, and the witness only came into the room after that had been done.
As I'm sure I've mentioned before, my sister had that job (untrained autopsy person) before she went to med school.
FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S DEBRAIN ALL THE LAWYERS
7: I'm not familiar with that protocol, but maybe non-forensic autopsies are different.
Well, they don't traditionally have a cheese course.
I can't quite remember how Dr. Oops described it -- I don't think she was starting without the doctor, generally. More doing the large-scale evisceration while the doctor took notes.
When I was first using email. Maybe 1997?`
IIRC the procedure is: first you do the exterior examination, then you open the chest and abdo cavity and extract the organs for weighing and examination, then you open the skull and extract the brain for weighing and examination. After you've finished you bung all the organs in the abdominal cavity and sew it up, then pack the skull full of absorbent material (to avoid the "my grandad's head is leaking" awkwardness) and glue the top back on.
"That 'My granddad's head is leaking' awkwardness" would make a great band name if people still had band names.