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James Brady, press secretary to President Ronald Reagan, died last month at 73. A Virginia medical examiner certified his death a homicide – a consequence of the gunshot wound to the head he...
DATE: Sept. 7, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
I was a medical student when I first saw someone die. A middle-aged woman lay in the intensive-care unit surrounded by machinery that recorded her heartbeat, measured her blood pressure and pumped...
DATE: Aug. 9, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
It should be no surprise that most people, even most doctors in training, think autopsies are gory. The surprise to me is quite a few of my colleagues take offense when somebody says so. Dr. John...
DATE: July 13, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
John Verrier, a 30-year-old man who went to a Bronx, New York, hospital emergency room because of a skin rash, waited more than eight hours to see a doctor. A security guard found him “stiff, blue...
DATE: June 8, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
“Oh dear, oh dear ... our Dad is dead Yesterday, the will was read. Stepmother Jane got all the dough None of us liked her much, you know. Even though Dad was awfully sick We know she gave him...
DATE: May 11, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
Nicole Leigh Redhorse was only 34 years old, and her 2007 death was a tragedy with elements of sex, murder and betrayal. Nicole was young, beautiful, brilliant, beloved and an alcoholic. Nicole’s...
DATE: April 13, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
Philip Seymour Hoffman, described in The New York Times as “perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation,” died in a Greenwich Village apartment on Feb. 2 with a...
DATE: March 9, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a 41-year-old volunteer linesman officiating at an amateur soccer game in the Netherlands, died in December 2012 after he was allegedly kicked in the head, neck and body by...
DATE: Feb. 8, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
CNN has reported doctors taking the examinations required for board certification in their specialties have been cheating on those tests for years. If they’re right about what constitutes cheating,...
DATE: Jan. 12, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
Years ago, when my friend Franz Kriwanek killed himself, I felt not only grief and loss but a great sense of failure. Franz was an artist and an accomplished potter. Born in Austria, he was...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2013 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
Dr. Keith Campbell, the British scientist whose research in cell biology led to the 1996 cloning of Dolly the sheep, died at 58. A clone is a fully functioning, living copy created from a single...
DATE: Nov. 10, 2013 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
According to the Albuquerque Journal, the New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld a $100,000 sanction levied against the regents of the University of New Mexico for witness intimidation. The...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2013 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
