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Summary: "Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, BARBARA BUTGoldfarb, Bruce
Summary: "Equipped with a journalist's eye, a paramedic's experience and a sardonic wit, Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where every sudden or unattended death in the state is scrutinized. Touching on numerous scandals, including Derek Chauvin's trial for the murder of George Floyd and the tragic killing in police custody of Freddie Gray, Goldfarb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLDFARB, BRUCE GOLMelinek, Judy.
Summary: The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's 'rookie season' as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases, hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex, that shaped her as both a physician and a mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MELINEK, JUDY MelMelinek, Judy.
Summary: "The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases--hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex--that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and their toddler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MELINEK, JUDY MELCornwell, Patricia Daniels
Summary: Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case--an investigation previously botched by another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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Summary: "Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC chief medical examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. She insists a pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, and when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an apparent death by suicide,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GERBaden, Michael M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2595 BADGerritsen, Tess.
Summary: Returning home from a trip to Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts a nightmarish scene. Police cruisers line her street and slumped in a car at the end of Maura's driveway is a dead woman, her head bloodied by a gunshot wound. Cops and neighbors gape at her as she approaches. Only when Maura looks at the victim does she understand why everyone is so shocked by her arrival. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GERFaust, Timothy
Summary: Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what's the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don't we have something better?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2019