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Anyone do an elective rotation with a medical examiner? What did you think of it?
I was thinking about going back home and doing one with the NYC ME, it would give me time to be at home for a wile and I was hoping to see some cool things
Don't do it. I spent a month with a ME back home to stay near the house. Every day was forensic autopsies on people who had been suicidized, murderized, or decomposified. It sort of fubars your world view when you open up a body bag and see a maggot-covered partially-skeletonized smelly corpse or a greenish marbalized bloated humany-thing with its tongue partially protruding. If the sight isn't bad enough, you then get to stick syringes into its eyeballs and cut out all of its vital organs.
THAT would have been awesome.
It really wasn't. Doing an autopsy on a 16 year old girl who had her brains blown out by a spree killer right after an old man whose head was blown-off by a shotgun wasn't very awesome.