After reading CT scans and X-rays, radiologists often make notes of injuries to show pathologists where to look for bullets or shrapnel during autopsies. Armed Forces Medical Examiner SystemFrom The New York Times:
Within an hour after the bodies arrive in their flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base, they go through a process that has never been used on the dead from any other war.
Since 2004, every service man and woman killed in Iraq or Afghanistan has been given a CT scan, and since 2001, when the fighting began in Afghanistan, all have had autopsies, performed by pathologists in the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. In previous wars, autopsies on people killed in combat were uncommon, and scans were never done.
The combined procedures have yielded a wealth of details about injuries from bullets, blasts, shrapnel and burns — information that has revealed deficiencies in body armor and vehicle shielding and led to improvements in helmets and medical equipment used on the battlefield.
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My Comment: A morbid examination on what is now a necessary procedure. The fact that this may save lives is a benefit that we are lucky to take.
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