By Judy Melinek, T. J. Mitchell
The fearless memoir of a tender forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical expert, and the cases—hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex—that formed her as either a doctor and a mother.
Just months ahead of the September eleven terrorist assaults, Dr. Judy Melinek begun her education as a brand new York urban forensic pathologist. along with her husband T.J. and their boy or girl Daniel maintaining down the house entrance, Judy threw herself into the attention-grabbing international of loss of life investigation—performing autopsies, investigating demise scenes, counseling grieving kin. Working Stiff chronicles Judy's years of educating, taking readers in the back of the police tape of a few of the main harrowing deaths within the long island, together with a firsthand account of the occasions of September eleven, the following anthrax bio-terrorism assault, and the disastrous crash of yank airways flight 587.
Lively, action-packed, and loaded with mordant wit, Working Stiff deals a firsthand account of everyday life in a single of America's so much hard professions, and the unforeseen demanding situations of shuttling among the domain names of the dwelling and the lifeless. The physique by no means lies—and throughout the murders, injuries, and suicides that land on her desk, Dr. Melinek lays naked the reality in the back of the glamorized depictions of post-mortem paintings on indicates like CSI and Law & Order to bare the key tale of the genuine morgue.
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I think of the stories and experiences gathered here as offering a sociological handbook on how we age and die now, sort of like a What to Expect When You’re Expecting but for the final years. Expecting death and knowing old age do not need to be depressing. That is what the people described in these pages taught me. Over the last five years as I have journeyed further into the land of old age, I have been frequently surprised at how eager participants are to tell their stories: volunteering in the grocery line, asking for updates about my work, and sending photos and late-night e-mails about their own experiences and memories of assisting others in their final years, days, and hours.
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