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Memoir of a young forensic pathologists rookie season as a nyc medical examiner, and the caseshairraising and heartbreaking and impossibly complexthat shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Now that weve passed oral boards study tips student. Working stiff two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner by judy melinek and t. She moved to the office of the chief medical examiner in san francisco in 2004. A medical examiner is a practitioner of forensic pathology who is legally appointed to certify and investigate the circumstances of deaths that dont appear related to natural causes.
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