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Working Stiff Judy Melinek, MD

Working Stiff von Judy Melinek, MD

Working Stiff Judy Melinek, MD

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Zusammenfassung

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.

Working Stiff Zusammenfassung

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner Judy Melinek, MD

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.

An unvarnished portrait of the daily life of medical examiners-complete with grisly anecdotes, chilling crime scenes, and a welcome dose of gallows humor-Working Stiffoffers a glimpse into the daily life of one of America'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 behind the glamorized depictions of autopsy work on television to reveal the secret story of the real 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).

Working Stiff Bewertungen

Far from the magic we see on TV, Working Stiff describes forensic pathology in the real world. The book is a compelling and absorbing read. -- Kathy Reichs, author of the Temperance Brennan Bones series
Fascinating case studies and a refreshing irreverence toward death and autopsies make Working Stiff a funny and engrossing read. -- Sandeep Jauhar, author of Intern: A Doctor's Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
Working Stiff is an engrossing and revealing glimpse into the making of a medical examiner with a searing insider's view into working at the New York Medical Examiner's Office during and just after 9/11. The story of how the author dealt with her father's suicide during childhood and later had to deal with suicides as part of her duties is wrenching and compelling. -- Jan Garavaglia, M.D. (Dr. G from the Discovery Channel Series and author of How Not to Die
A riveting read, at once compassionate and morbidly fascinating. -- Todd Harra, author of Over Our Dead Bodies
Working Stiff is an eye-opening, gripping account of the life of a forensic pathologist working in New York City. Whether dealing with routine autopsies, surviving relatives, or the catastrophe of September 11, Dr. Judy Melinek reveals the dignity of being human in the face of death. -- Leora Tanenbaum, author of Taking Back God
In this engrossing tale of how Melinek became a forensic pathologist, she pulls back the sheet to show readers just what goes on after someone dies... Armchair detectives and would-be forensic pathologists will find Melinek's well-written account to be inspiring and engaging. * Publishers Weekly *
Both chilling and heart-warming at the same time, Judy Melinek's account explains how empathy and humanity are as important working with the dead as they are with the living. She strikes the balance just right in helping us better understand what we most fear, yet still fear it all the same. -- Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director, PEN America Center
Melinek's enthusiasm for her calling is always apparent, and her writing is un-self-consciously bouncy, absorbed and mordant (though not caustic).... A transfixing account of death, from the mundane to the oddly hair-raising. * Kirkus Reviews *
Working Stiff is the grossest book you'll ever love. But it is also so much more than that: Seamlessly fusing memoir, science journalism, riveting whodunit mysteries, and light humor about a dark topic, Working Stiff is a relentlessly fascinating and informative book from the first page to the last. Judy Melinek--whether she's re-enacting assaults in a courtroom while heavily pregnant, or fighting with lazy homicide detectives, or solving amazing forensic mysteries through the ghastly things she does with her corpses--is an unfailingly charming and even inspiring guide to the world of medical examiners. A remarkable achievement by Mitchell and Melinek. -- Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic magazine, and author of the New York Times Bestseller My Age of Anxiety
Spellbinding. . . . Melinek is movingly empathetic toward the families of victims. . . . An unforgettable story. * Booklist starred review *
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 *
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 *

Über Judy Melinek, MD

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. They have three children, and have lived in and worked in San Francisco since 2004.

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GOR007095604
9781476727264
1476727260
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner Judy Melinek, MD
Judy Melinek, MD
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Simon & Schuster
20150702
288
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