Dead Wrong: WPTV in Florida reports
March 3rd, 2010
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A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don’t really know what’s killing Americans. A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.
Story produced by WPTV in West Palm Beach, Fla. and Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C.
WPTV and Scripps Howard News Service are owned by the E.W. Scripps company.
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Categories: Florida Death Records autopsy, bowman, dc, Florida, hargrove, investigation, journalism, palm, scripps, washington, West, Wptv
A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don’t really know what’s killing Americans. A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.
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