Publisher Description
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 and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation—performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving relatives. Working Stiff chronicles Judy's two years of training, taking listeners behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple. Lively, action-packed, and loaded with mordant wit, Working Stiff offers a firsthand account of daily life in one of America's most arduous professions. The body never lies—and through the murders, accidents, and suicides that land on her table, Dr. Melinek lays bare the truth behind the glamorized depictions of autopsy work to reveal the secret story of the real morgue.
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About the Author
Judy Melinek, MD, and T. J. Mitchell are the co-authors of the bestseller memoir Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner and the novels First Cut and the upcoming Cross Cut. Melinek studied at Harvard and UCLA, was a medical examiner in San Francisco for nine years, and works as a forensic pathologist in Oakland and as CEO of PathologyExpert Inc. T. J. Mitchell, her husband, is a writer with an English degree from Harvard, who has worked in the film industry.