Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist and co-author with T.J. Mitchell of the medical memoir Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner knows this only too well.(1) ...

For many people, forensic pathology seems forbidding and dark. It deals intimately with death, crime, and disaster and is most often represented through the artifice of television shows and movies.

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