Exhume (Dr. Schwartzman Series book 1)
“With the bodies cleared, she washed up. Normally she would have completed her paperwork at the desk in the morgue, but the deceased was a smoker and the smell lingered. Instead Schwartzman exchanged her lab coat for a sweater and moved into her office.
Beside “Cause of Death,” she made a check next to “Natural” and wrote, “Ventricular fibrillation leading to sudden cardiac death.” If not for the hefty life insurance policy, the man’s death wouldn’t have called for autopsy. He had all the risk f...actors for sudden cardiac death—hypertension, high cholesterol, history of heart disease.
In autopsy, she found clear evidence of both recent and old myocardial infarction, premortem coronary thrombus, plaque rupture, and the presence of 83 percent coronary artery disease.
From what she saw, he was lucky he lived as long as he did.
With the file completed, she shut down her computer and took her coat off the hook beside the door, pulling the wool over her shoulders and feeling the weight of it stretch down her back and neck.MoreLess
Beside “Cause of Death,” she made a check next to “Natural” and wrote, “Ventricular fibrillation leading to sudden cardiac death.” If not for the hefty life insurance policy, the man’s death wouldn’t have called for autopsy. He had all the risk f...actors for sudden cardiac death—hypertension, high cholesterol, history of heart disease.
In autopsy, she found clear evidence of both recent and old myocardial infarction, premortem coronary thrombus, plaque rupture, and the presence of 83 percent coronary artery disease.
From what she saw, he was lucky he lived as long as he did.
With the file completed, she shut down her computer and took her coat off the hook beside the door, pulling the wool over her shoulders and feeling the weight of it stretch down her back and neck.MoreLess
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