George C. Nichopoulos

Did Elvis Presley know his body was dying? Did the people around him know? And if they did, why did the show keep going? I've gone through four primary sources for this one.

Dr. Nick's own memoir, Goralnik's Careless Love, Red and Sonny's Elvis What Happened, and Alana Nash's Elvis and the Memphis Mafia.

What I found is more disturbing than most people realize.

Let's go.

That's not the full story, not even close.

Dr. George Nikopoulos, Elvis' personal physician for the last decade of his life, spent years after Elvis' death trying to explain what he'd actually witnessed.

And in his memoir, The King and Dr. Nick, he lays it all out in clinical detail.

When Elvis' body was opened during the autopsy, here's what they found.