Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, T.J. Mitchell

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

Judy Melinek, T.J. Mitchell

258 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science dark informative fast-paced

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The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases, hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex, that shaped her as both a physician and a mother.Just two months before the Septem...

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challenging 27%
funny 22%
inspiring 18%
hopeful 11%
tense 9%
lighthearted 6%
adventurous 5%

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