title: Postmortem management of patient affairs: the resident's perspective.
abstract: The role of residents continues to evolve, and they are finding themselves increasingly being asked to request an autopsy from a grieving family. Although much has been written previously concerning the need for residents to be more aggressive in obtaining autopsy, this article suggests that structural problems must be addressed if the current low autopsy rate is to be improved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo.
authors.forename: C O
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Hershey
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011368:Professional-Family Relations