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Dr. Charles Hirsch, under whom I trained, said few people have 20 years’ experience. Lots of people have one year’s experience repeated 20 times. Some people spend years repeating their errors,...
DATE: April 12, 2015 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
“What looks like neglect from my perspective is sometimes the best people can do given the tools and capabilities they have,” one of my colleagues said. The comment was part of a debate about...
DATE: March 8, 2015 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
When a child dies from a head injury, an “undetermined” manner-of-death certification may be seen as an act of cowardice or an act of courage. Brookelynn Palmer, the 13-month-old daughter of...
DATE: Feb. 7, 2015 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
A great many of the death certificates filed in this country aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, and neither are the scientific studies based on them. I’ve expressed this opinion in writing...
DATE: Jan. 11, 2015 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
Almost 20 years ago, two men in Fort Myers, Florida, got into an argument, and the one who brought a baseball bat to a gunfight wound up dead. I did the autopsy. I don’t remember what the argument...
DATE: Dec. 7, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
In March, a superior court judge in New Hampshire barred the state’s chief medical examiner from testifying that the death of an 8-month-old boy was a homicide. As reported by The Telegraph in...
DATE: Nov. 9, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
Death catches some people unawares. Others, like my Grandpa Reuben, see it coming. As the only child of two only children, I was unusually close to my grandparents. I followed Grandpa around the...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2014 | COLUMN: Coroner's Report
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
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