Inside America's morgues: 4 disturbing revelations

A high-profile new investigation has lifted the veil on the "Real CSI" — and unearthed some terrifying discoveries

According to a recent investigation, more than 1 in 5 doctors working in some of the country's busiest morgues failed their forensic pathology examinations.
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To watch "CSI," you'd think that our nation's morgues were staffed by highly-trained professionals with the ability and means to study and determine the cause of every suspicious death. But the reality is far different, according to a joint investigation by ProPublica, "Frontline," and NPR. In fact, America's network of medical examiners and coroners is a "deeply dysfunctional system that quite literally buries its mistakes." Here, the reporting team's 4 most disturbing revelations:

1. A catalogue of blunders

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