Death of the teaching autopsy: Autopsy is a success story in Cuba

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7432.166-a

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Alfredo Espinosa-Brito (espinosa@perla.inf.cu), professor,
Julian Viera-Yaniz, professor,
Osmel Chavez-Troya, doctor,
Raul Nieto-Cabrera, doctor

department of internal medicine
department of pathology
department of internal medicine
department of internal medicine, Hospital Dr Gustavo Aldereguia Lima, Ave 5 de Septiembre and Calle 51A, Cienfuegos, 55 100, Cuba

EDITOR—Advances in sophisticated antemortem diagnostic methods may have reduced the value of autopsy.1 The percentage of deaths without clinical-pathological concordance has not decreased despite modern diagnostic technologies.2 Indeed, in certain cases these new methods have misled the diagnosis, partly because of doctors' excessive confidence in them.

Ours is the main provincial hospital for adult patients with …