Posted: 2/9/2007 5:30:20 AM EDT
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How professional are they when working on a famous person? How many are in the room during the autopsy? Will Anna end upon Ogrish? |
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I manage a hospital on the weekends. We do all for the county. They are very casual and a learning experience. I would think for a celebrity they would be very formal and very serious with no stone unturned. I choose not to watch them as they weird me out. I have worked in surgery for years, blood and guts do not bother me. Something about the desecration of the body in a cold manner does. They serve a legal purpose of finding the truth for the law and for the families. Bob RN ETA there is one doctor and usually a couple of state police during mine. |
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I've witnessed a few autopsies in my career. In my experiences, there was a doctor and an assistant performing the actual autopsy, with another assistant doing other things (sucking out the vitrious fluid from the eyeballs via a syringe, repackaging the parts, bagging the head after disection, sewing up the body, etc.). Then, there is another assistant who photographs the injuries/body parts. There is no grab ass going on. Everyone was very professional, but also very down to earth. Even though they were disecting a human, their demeanor was about as normal as someone doing any other type of job. There was friendly conversation back and forth, smiles, what have you. These are doctors. I tend to think they go about their business the same way, no matter who the deceased is. The autopsies are performed in a pretty large sized room. Inside this room are several autopsy stations. One time when I was there, they were performing an autopsy on one of my victims. Just feet away were 5 other bodies waiting to be autopsied. Any number of officers, doctors, bodies, or ME staff can be in the room at any given time. |
| I would venture to say that most pathologists are professional and it is independant of the (relative) celebrity of the deceased. The audio and any visual (photo/video) is a part of the permanant record, and is a legal document. It is my impression that when morgue photos hit the public realm, it has virtually always been by a lower staff member copying and releasing them. A chain is as strong as its weakest link, and there are a lots of minimum wage workers that could potentially access the records, violating a bunch of regulations in the process, and make a bundle on stuff like that. |