A pathologist does what?

One job that you'd have to love. I find it most interesting that there is someone adept at dissecting a body that's been under water for days or has been exposed to the elements of nature and still find out the cause of death. Death detectives.

Pathologists also perform minor surgeries when they take biopsies and determine whether they are cancerous.

Pathologist is a broad term. Please clarify. A Licensed Speech Language PATHOLOGIST does not perform minor surgeries Or bodies and body tissues. this is just one of possible field of studies.