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12%OFFJudy Melinek - Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner - 9781476727264 - V9781476727264
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

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Description for Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner Paperback. Fearless memoir of a forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases that shaped her as both a physician and mother. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGTA; MMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. While 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 behind the police tape of some of the 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. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781476727264
SKU
V9781476727264
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About Judy Melinek
Judy Melinek is a forensic pathologist and an associate clinical professor at UCSF Medical Center. She earned her college degree from Harvard and received her medical degree and pathology residency training at UCLA. Her coauthor and husband T.J. Mitchell graduated with an English degree from Harvard and worked in the film industry before becoming a full-time stay-at-home dad in 2000. ... Read more

Reviews for Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Melinek chronicles her time at the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner - and it's nothing like what you see on television.
New York Post
Working Stiff is a page-turning, engrossing book that reveals a hidden world and shows that the work of understanding death is actually a labor of life.
Sciencethrillers.com
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Goodreads reviews for Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner


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