Forensic Pathology Forum

Originally published in MedPage Today August 16, 2018 (https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/depression/74589) “My father killed himself when I was 13 years old.” That was the opening li...

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Reasonable Uncertainty: The Limits and Expectations of an Expert’s Testimony. Originally published in Forensic Magazine September 2017, 14, 3:18-19 (https://www.forensicmag.com/article/2017...

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Originally published in Forensic Magazine June 2017 14,2:23-24. (https://www.forensicmag.com/article/2017/06/expert-witness-jury-duty-inside-box) Last week I was called to jury duty at my local...

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By A.J. Chapman In the 1970s, “The Six‐Million‐Dollar Man” was a popular television show. It concerned a man who had met with a disaster that extensively destroyed much of his body th...

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This article was originally published in Forensic Magazine . To read the original article click here (http://digital.forensicmag.com/forensics/september_2016/MobilePagedReplica.action?pg=18#pg18...

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This article was originally published in Forensic Magazine . To read the original article click here (http://digital.forensicmag.com/forensics/june_2016/MobilePagedReplica.action?pg=18#pg18? ) ...

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It was one of the toughest phone conversations I have made in my 15 years as a forensic pathologist. I had just completed the autopsy of a three month-old infant. He had spent the night shari...

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This article was originally published in Forensic Magazine . To read the original article click here (http://www.forensicmag.com/articles/2016/03/ethics-and-forensic-expert-what-would-you-do ) ...

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This article was originally published in Forensic Magazine . To read the original article click here (http://www.forensicmag.com/articles/2015/12/forensic-radiology-and-medical-examiner ) It ...

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This article was originally published in Forensic Magazine . To read the original article click here (http://www.forensicmag.com/articles/2015/10/five-case-studies-forensic-toxicology ) As a p...

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This article was originally published in Forensic Magazine . To read the original article click here. When a breaking news case involves a sudden, unnatural or violent death, journalists will ...

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FORENSICS by Val McDermid - Nonfiction - Grove Press 2015 Disclosure: Free pre-publication copy received from the publisher in exchange for review/promotion Val McDermid is a Scottish crime...

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by Brodie Butler, Biology/Humanities major at Azusa Pacific University “…I WAS MADE TO DO THIS.”  That’s what I tried to convince myself as I was slumped over in the library at un...

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Q - In your memoir, Good Cop, Bad Daughter, you describe San Francisco in the 60s and 70s, where you grew up and then became a police officer. In your opinion, how did the anti-war movement ...

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WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF A FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST? A forensic pathologist is a doctor who is trained to perform autopsies to figure out the cause of death and is also trained in death investigat...

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> Since the publication last year of my New York Times bestselling > book Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a > Medical Examiner, I have found m...

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1. IS THE PATHOLOGIST CERTIFIED BY THE AMERICAN BOARD OF PATHOLOGY? This is the most important qualification for an expert witness in the field of pathology. Just because an expert claims to be "...

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>  >  These are a couple of articles pertaining to coroners' races this Election Day that I have come across in the last week, the first from Indiana, and the second from Washington: "Candi...

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> A reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called me earlier this > week, saying she had Michael Brown's official autopsy report as > prepared by the St. Louis Count...

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> 1. Many reviews and press events about Working Stiff list Judy > Melinek as the sole author, even though the book is co-authored by > T.J. Mitchell. Do you think th...

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"Partial autopsies yield partial answers" Dr. Charles Hirsch taught me as a young doctor during my forensic pathology fellowship training in New York City, in 2001-2003. This was one of scores of...

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"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." Niels Bohr When I review others' reports and find mistakes I always try to learn from them...

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Is it common for coroners or forensic pathologists to cut corners in a death investigation if a case does not look like foul play was involved?  Several visitors to this blog have asked me this ...

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Recently in the news,  North Carolina Medical Examiners were criticized for violating State law for not examining bodies or doing forensic death investigations in sudden or suspicious deaths th...

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I occassionally get calls from families requesting I perform autopsies on a relative because the family was concerned that the care in the long-term care facility or hospice was a contributor to ...

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