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To: Shermy
And don’t forget the stories about the Doctor who “fell” off a Memphis bridge!

It should be: And don’t forget the stories about the Doctor who “flew” off a Memphis bridge!

14 posted on 03/13/2002 11:42:39 AM PST by oyez
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To: oyez
Here's a link to the - The Regional Forensic Center

It's part of the Dept. of Pathology at the "University of Tennessee Medical Center." Here's the text:

"In contrast to the hospital autopsy, the forensic or medicolegal autopsy does not require the permission of the next of kin. The forensic autopsy may be ordered by the county medical examiner or the district attorney general. Tennessee law requires the following deaths be reported to the county medical examiner:

Violent

Casualty

Suicide

Suddenly when in apparent health

Found dead

In prison

Suspicious, unusual, or unnatural

Cremation

For those deaths, the medical examiner makes inquiries regarding the cause and manner of death. If the medical examiner thinks that an autopsy is necessary to complete the investigation, then he (she) has the power to order an autopsy to be performed by a pathologist. Pathologists who have undergone additional training to specialize in doing medicolegal autopsies are called forensic pathologists.

In Knox County, all medicolegal autopsies are performed by a pathologist in the Department of Pathology at the Regional Forensic Center located at the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

The Regional Forensic Center is located in newly constructed, state-of-the-art facilities completed in 1999. The Forensic Center is under the direction of Sandra Elkins, M.D., who is not only a board-certified forensic pathologist, but also holds the appointment of Knox County medical examiner.

17 posted on 03/13/2002 11:53:56 AM PST by Shermy
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