Speaking for the Dead with Authors Dr. Judy Melinek, M.D. and T.J. Mitchell
b'Show #100, Hour 2 | Guests: Dr. Judy Melinek, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard University. She trained at UCLA in medicine and pathology, graduating in 1996. Her training at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York is the subject of her memoir, Working Stiff, which she co-wrote with her husband, T.J. Mitchell. Currently, Dr. Melinek is CEO of PathologyExpert Inc., and works as a forensic pathologist in Alameda county. She also travels nationally and internationally to lecture on anatomic and forensic pathology and she has been consulted as a forensic expert in many high-profile legal cases, as well as for the television shows E.R. and Mythbuster | Show Summary: Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. Working Stiff is the fearless memoir of the young forensic pathologist\\u2019s \\u201crookie season\\u201d as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases\\u2014hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex\\u2014that shaped her as both a physician and a mother'