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Fun and full of smart science Fans of CSI the true kind will wish to read it The Washington Post A young forensic pathologist s rookie season as a NYC medical examiner and the hair raising cases that shaped her as a physician and human being Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks Dr Judy Melinek started her training as a New York City forensic pathologist Whilst her husband and their toddler held down the home front Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation performing autopsies investigating death scenes counseling grieving relatives Working Stiff chronicles Judy s two years of training taking readers at the back of the police tape of one of the vital most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple including a firsthand account of the events of September 11 the subsequent anthrax bio terrorism attack and the disastrous crash of American Airlines Flight 587 An unvarnished portrait of the day by day life of medical examiners complete with grisly anecdotes chilling crime scenes and a welcome dose of gallows humor Working Stiff offers a glimpse into the day by day life of one of The us s most arduous professions and the unexpected challenges of shuttling between the domains of the living and the dead The body never lies and through the murders accidents and suicides that land on her table Dr Melinek lays bare the truth at the back of the glamorized depictions of autopsy work on tv to reveal the name of the game story of the true morgue Haunting and illuminating the stories from her average workdays transfix the reader with their demonstration that medical science can diagnose and console long after the heartbeat stops The New York Times Fun and full of smart science Fans of CSI the true kind will wish to read it The Washington Post A young forensic pathologist s rookie season as a NYC medical examiner and the hair raising cases that shaped her as a physician and human being Just two months before