I Am A Forensic Pathologist Who Was About To Perform An Autopsy On A Young Woman. Then I Realized Her Heart Was Still Beating. What Do I Do Now?

A Suspicious Case

The police valued David for his input and always sought to maintain a friendly relationship with the forensic expert of his caliber. Fortunately, facing the manifestations of human cruelty every day, the young forensic pathologist learned to trust only the facts and nothing else. Those who knew David for years were used to his highly professional approach to body examination,.

This didn’t just allow him to precisely determine the cause of death but also gave him important clues for the identification of the murder. That day was no different. The body of a young woman in her 30s was delivered to the center of forensic medicine. However, the accompanying documents already stated the presumed cause of the woman’s death: a heart attack.

“At this age? No, something’s definitely off here,”

David whispered and looked again at the body lying on the table. At that moment, one of the orderlies working in the morgue’s reception area peeked into the autopsy room, looking at David with clear concern on his face. He said:

“Mr. Davis, sir, I forgot to tell you. It was the deceased husband who brought the body to the morgue.”

The forensic pathologist frowned.

“So what, Billy? What does that have to do with anything in this case?”

The orderly hesitated for a moment and then replied:

“Well, her husband is a well-known businessman who personally knows the director of our center. Basically, he asked not to perform an autopsy and to prepare the body for burial.”,

The Incision

David scowled.

“Since when can relatives of the deceased influence the work of forensic pathology? I believe that the decision in this case should be made by the specialist and no one else.”

The orderly nodded readily and rushed to leave the autopsy room. David then took the scalpel and approached the deceased woman on the table. Her skin was fair and quite rosy, which immediately puzzled the forensic pathologist.

“God, I’ve never seen anything like this before. So lifelike.”

His hand holding the scalpel trembled, and the blade only slightly grazed the woman’s skin. He saw blood and then the woman’s hand move slightly. Despite the movement being almost imperceptible, David immediately noticed it.

“Dear God, she’s alive. Pulse… does she have a pulse?”

Echoed in David’s mind. Hoping to find the woman’s heartbeat, the forensic pathologist retrieved a stethoscope from the cabinet and placed it on the left side of her chest,. It seemed impossible, but there was no heartbeat.

A Miracle in the Morgue

Meanwhile, the woman’s hand twitched again while her plump lips trembled slightly. David placed the stethoscope on the right side of her chest and distinctly heard the heartbeat. Only then did the forensic pathologist realize his mistake.

The woman’s heart was on the right side, an extremely rare anomaly that occurs in one out of several thousands of people. Despite encountering this for the first time, David didn’t continue the examination and urgently summoned a team of resuscitators who promptly removed the patient from the morgue.

The case turned out to be so unique that it almost instantly made headlines in the local newspapers. It was later revealed that the woman, Amanda Gomez, had not suffered a heart attack at all. The cause of her condition was a plant-based poison that entered her system through food.

The person responsible for it was identified quite quickly. It turned out to be Amanda’s husband, who had been having an affair for quite some time,.

The Truth Revealed

Facing the possibility of losing half of his assets and a divorce from his legal wife, George Gomez found an alternative solution to his problem. He faced a tough choice: lose a significant portion of his wealth or deal with his “wife problem” more radically. George chose the latter and purchased a vial of poison on the black market.

The seller assured him that the poison would act almost instantly and leave no trace in the victim’s blood after half an hour. However, either the poison was of poor quality or the clumsy husband miscalculated the dose, but Amanda woke up in the morgue just a minute before her autopsy,.

Of course, this case had its fair share of coincidences that seemed like acts of divine intervention. If David hadn’t paid attention to the color of the woman’s skin and hadn’t decided to check her heartbeat, things could have ended quite tragically. But they didn’t, and Amanda was discharged from the hospital just a week later after receiving a course of intensive therapy.

George Gomez did get his divorce; however, he wouldn’t be getting to spend time with his lover. Instead, he’d be spending quite a long time serving his sentence in the state penitentiary. Meanwhile, there was no telling if his lover would wait for him until he got out.

Seeing that her son had become famous, David’s mother finally changed her attitude towards his profession and expressed her admiration for him for the first time in several years. Meanwhile, David didn’t waste any time and invited the woman he saved out on a date. Rumor had it that the couple was going to have a great future together, and it was hard to argue with that. Especially considering that Amanda believed that David was her guardian angel and there were no random events in life, that everything always happened for a reason.