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1 at Walter Reed, and its function is to study the
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2 pathology of the different organs.
3 It got its start looking, as the name might
4 imply, at war wounds.
5 In fact, if you go to the museum, you will
6 find that there are lots of Lincoln's hair and the
7 bullet that killed Lincoln and a piece of his skull
8 and things of this sort.
9 Military injuries were where it got its
10 start and then it branched out to be all of the entire
11 spectrum of human pathology. And it is the repository
12 of basically all of the pathology knowledge in the
13 U.S.
14 Not all of it, but it is the most single
15 specialized organization in the U.S. for the study of
16 pathology.
17 , Q Does the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
18 serve as a referral center for pathologists all over
19 the country who have some question about whether they
20 have made the right diagnosis in a case?
21 A Absolutely. If there is a case in which you