Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
For more than one thousand years, the medical community has relied on autopsies as a teaching tool and a research device. But, for a variety, recent years have seen a dramatic decline in the number of hospital autopsies done. Experts join Kojo to discuss whether this ancient art is still useful in our technology-dense healthcare arena.
Guests
- Dr. A. Bennett Jenson Director of Autopsy Services and Professor of Pathology at Georgetown University Medical Center
- Dr. Dawn Cannon Assistant Professor of Pathology and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at Howard University College of Medicine
- Dr. Jonathan Arden Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia
- Vidal Herrera Founder and president of 1-800-AUTOPSY
- Paul Shyve Senior Vice President, Joint Commission on Accreditataion of Healthcare Organizations
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