Forensic Pathologist Quotes

He (Bugliosi) took bits and pieces out of context and presented my views and opinions in a much distorted and unrecognizable fashion.” -- Dr. Cyril Wecht, forensic pathologist and former president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine

All the medical examiners in the state of Florida are forensic pathologists with medical degrees.

Crime reporting was aggressive in Richmond, an old Virginia city of 220,000, which last year was listed by the FBI as having the second-highest homicide rate per capita in the United States. It wasn’t uncommon for forensic pathologists from the British Commonwealth to spend a month at my office to learn more about gunshot wounds. It wasn’t uncommon for career cops like Pete Marino to leave the madness of New York or Chicago only to find Richmond was worse.

Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities.

The meeting introduced me- or, perhaps no introduction was necessary- to the awful collision between the silent, unfeeling dead and immensity of feeling they generate in the living. I left the room with relief, making a mental note to avoid the bereaved at all costs and stick to the safe world inhabited by the dead, with its facts, its measurements, its certainties. In their universe, there was a complete absence of emotion. Not to mention its ugly sister, pain.

As recently as 1950, the Scottish pathologist John Glaister included in his text the tale of a man "who was apprehended after having been seen to have unnatural intercourse with a duck," leaving us to wonder precisely what natural intercourse with a duck would involve.

Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly affected by choices I made, by how many facts I chose to study. It was the first step in what was to become a lifelong examination of the nature of truth.

The plan was born in the mind of a novelist and took shape through a most unlikely cast of characters: a brilliant barrister, a family of undertakers, a forensic pathologist, a gold prospector, an inventor, a submarine captain, a transvestite English spymaster, a rally driver, a pretty secretary, a credulous Nazi, and a grumpy admiral who loved fly-fishing.

- Ми ніколи не дізнаємося точно про те, що пережила Алана. Я можу лише сказати, що ознак шоку немає. І повторюю, що смерть - це процес, під час якого життя поступово згасає і відходить. І я вірю в те, що це приємний процес. Сімʼя виглядала готовою залишити кімнату - вони були спокійні, задумані, розслаблені. Однак тоді батько на мій подив сказав: - Усе, що ви сказали, було дуже корисне. Але... Я просто не можу думати про те, що ви розрізали мою дитину на шматки. На цьому моменті мати, що виглядала до того сильною та зібраною, гірко розплакалася. - Ми хотіли б побачити її востаннє. Але ми не можемо. Бо ви її пошматували! Син проковтнув повітря. Обличчя доньки перекосилося. Батько знову заплакав. Мені раніше ніколи не спадало на думку, що для більшості людей я є темною фігурою смерті, вбраною в кольори Геловіна, яка "шматує" їхніх близьких. І це вперше я зіткнувся з хибним уявленням, що ми, патологоанатоми, перетворюємо красиві мертві тіла на пошматоване мʼясо. Відтоді стикався з цим частіше. Багато людей - і, на жаль, це стосується поліцейських або й коронерів (які дійсно мають ліпше знати), - радять родичам, які бажають побачити тіло після смерті, не робити цього через те, "що зробили судмедексперти". Люди, яких лякає сама думка про розтин, навіть ті, хто теоретично є професіоналами, але ніколи не були у морзі й не бачили тіла після розтину, не мають переносити свої емоції на родичів у такий чутливий період. Без сумніву, вони намагаються таким чином виразити підтримку. Натомість можуть заподіяти глибокі рани тим, хто хоче і потребує останнього прощання. [...] Для мене ці слова підкреслили важливість посмертної експертизи. Коли я її виконую, я виявляю до мертвих не просто "максимальну турботу і повагу", як того очікує цивілізоване суспільство, а любов до ближнього. Я констатую точну причину смерті, і мене дуже ображає, коли мене вважають м'ясником. Я щиро сподіваюся, що ті, з ким я говорив особисто або хто чув мої виступи в суді, оцінять, що я робив свою роботу з усією обережністю. І, я вважаю, з любовʼю до людства. Дуже мʼяко я намагався допомогти заплаканим родичам Алани зрозуміти, що її тіло не було жорстоко понівечене після смерті, а шанобливо досліджене - заради них, заради неї та заради суспільства. Світ не знизав плечима і не сказав: "Ну добре, померла ще одна пʼятнадцятирічна дівчинка". Світ вимагав правди. Я запевнив їх, що її тіло було достовірно і красиво відновлене після цього процесу - як і всі інші тіла - моїми колегами. Працівники моргу по праву пишаються своєю майстерністю. Сімʼя Алани не має боятися бачити її. Дійсно, вони мають це зробити. Бачити тіло рідної людини - це спосіб попрощатися, визнати остаточність смерті й радіти життю. Потім я домовився про те, щоб родина могла побачити тіло Алани. Вони тихо дякували мені, коли я йшов. Я знав, якою довгою і важкою буде скорботна дорога, як вона розгортається перед ними. Можливо, я спростив для них кілька кроків на цьому шляху.

One might wonder how adults can think race is just a social construct when babies as young as 3 months old prefer faces of their own race (Bar-Heim, 2006; Kelly, 2005), genetic analysis can identify the (self-identified) race of people with nearly 100% accuracy (Tang, 2005), and pathologists and forensic anthropologists can easily tell the race of a person from examining only a fleshless skull.

Crime reporting was aggressive in Richmond, an old Virginia city of 220,000, which last year was listed by the FBI as having the second-highest homicide rate per capita in the United States. It wasn’t uncommon for forensic pathologists from the British Commonwealth to spend a month at my office to learn more about gunshot wounds. It wasn’t uncommon for career cops like Pete Marino to leave the madness of New York or Chicago only to find Richmond was worse. What

Cyril H. Wecht, the renowned forensic pathologist, a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, and who also holds a law degree, confirmed the theory that there were two gunmen involved in the assassination and that the second shooter was most likely behind the picket fence near the top of a prominent grassy knoll. Even President Lyndon Johnson is said to have implicated the CIA in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro. Some attempts involving the Mafia are said to date back to the Eisenhower years. A 2009 CBS News poll stated that 76% of people believed that Kennedy’s death was orchestrated by the Cuban government in retaliation for the CIA’s efforts to kill Castro. President Johnson told his former speechwriter, Leo Janos of Time magazine, that he “never believed that Oswald acted alone.

respectively. Diane Claridge Dolphin and beaked whale researcher; wife and research partner of Ken Balcomb. Darlene Ketten Whale and human hearing expert; forensic pathologist, Harvard Medical School and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Roger Payne First cetologist to decode and promote humpback whale song and conservation. Chris Clark Director, Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell University Lab of Ornithology; protégé of Roger Payne.

I go to a national meeting and sit at a banquet with three hundred other forensic pathologists, the world's foremost experts in disease and death. Seventy-five percent of us don't jog or do aerobics, don't walk when we can ride, don't stand when we can sit, and assiduously avoid stairs or hills unless they're on the decline. A third of us smoke, most of us drink, and all of us eat as if there is no tomorrow.

There were cases of rape on October 7th, rape that came before the kill. And you, as pathologists, have to decide if rape was done and how it was done. How do you determine what happened when a body arrives burned, rotten, or cut?" Chen [Dr. Chen Kugel]…didn't hesitate, "I have something to say about it. It makes me very angry when people ask me for evidence of rape. I mean very angry. After all, we know very well that only a small percentage of rape cases have forensic evidence. In most cases, such conclusive evidence does not exist because the genitals are built for sex, so it is unlikely that there will always be an injury there. Even if there is sperm, extracting it as time passes is complicated. And here, the international community is asking us for proof. The videos are not enough, the testimonies of the survivors are not enough, and suddenly they are asking us for evidence that there was rape because otherwise, as far as they are concerned, it did not happen. Because Hamas, as we know, can kidnap babies and shoot the elderly but rape?! How can such a thing be believed?

Critically, the French investigative team would also be given whatever support they required in Ireland, including full access to the original garda murder file. This ensured that the French investigators would have access to all witness statements, forensic reports, the crime scene photographs and the post-mortem examination file of State Pathologist Professor John Harbison. If the French police team had not had access to the Irish files, an investigation would be fatally compromised from the outset. This granting of access was unprecedented. It also confirmed, beyond any doubt, that no action would ever be taken by the DPP over the garda case file in Ireland. Any such action would be critically undermined from the very start by the fact that access to the file had been given to someone outside the Irish judicial process–and would open any future prosecution, even one taken on the basis of new evidence, to an immediate legal challenge based on a breach of process. While it was never confirmed, the astonishing level of access granted to Magistrate Gachon and his police team was clearly the result of consultations between Paris and Dublin at the very highest levels. Even allowing for existing European judicial and police cooperation protocols, journalists covering the case–including myself–felt the level of access given to the French was astonishing.

Doug is more valuable alive and earning an income, then dead with a life insurance policy.

Great suggestion, Angela!” agreed Marie. “I have not been to that bar in years, but I remember trying their deep fried cheesecake. It was delicious and a heart attack on a plate. Jo, are you at a convenient place in your research to take a break?

Green Bay averaged one murder a year,

Haven’t you had enough gross crime scenes with the brain matter on the green yesterday?” asked Marie. “Oh wait, I forgot - you were with the crime lab, Jill.

Ha ha, hey the four of us made it off the course in good health. We didn't ask to play next to this foursome. We were happily gulping margaritas. Back to the case, we really appreciate your help. We have sort of hit a roadblock on where to go next and then we thought of you. Angela

Because he died in a city with a population of less than five thousand that was in a county with a population of just more than sixteen thousand residents, they have a coroner who's not a physician.

They all piled into one car to drive to the bar. It was nearly close enough to walk, but there was rain in the forecast and they opted to stay dry by taking a car.

She was sure they were dying to know

Okay, we’re all dying to know.

I added the police report number, the morgue number, and the Laboratoire de Médecine Légale, or LML, number and experienced my usual wave of anger at the arrogant indifference of the system. Violent death allows no privacy. It plunders one’s dignity as surely as it has taken one’s life. The body is handled, scrutinized, and photographed, with a new series of digits allocated at each step. The victim becomes part of the evidence, an exhibit, on display for police, pathologists, forensic specialists, lawyers, and, eventually, jurors. Number it. Photograph it. Take samples. Tag the toe. While I am an active participant, I can never accept the impersonality of the system. It is like looting on the most personal level.

Declan Donnelly, the forensic pathologist for this part of Cumbria and Lancashire, arrived at the campsite in company with the only forensic anthropologist for the whole of the north-west, who just happened to be teaching a class at Lancaster University.

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Educators often refer to communication skills as rhetorical skills. Scholars focus on both oral and written rhetoric. Oral skills are often taught through speech and debate classes, and are sometimes called forensics. Forensics, derived from the Latin word “forum,”as in court of law, actually means pertaining to legal proceedings or argumentation. Popular television shows have changed the meaning to something related exclusively to scientific investigation, as by a forensic pathologist. The term is actually much broader, as forensics implies researching an idea and then comparing it to things known by the audience in order to persuade them to one side of an argument or the other. Hence, the term “rhetoric”is closely tied to the idea of oral, documented, or physical evidence explained to the appropriate audience.

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Izzy has finished her mime, but, rather than let her imaginary shoelace drop, she rolls it up and places it on the stainless-steel gurney beside her. Leo and George exchange glances. Forensic pathologists, thinks Leo – not for the first time – are not entirely normal.