Shiya ribowsky biography examples

a really fascinating look at a different facet of a working medical examiner's office (the medical-investigator side, versus my previous readings about being the actual medical examiner doing the autopsies, that is).

shiya ribowski was an orthodox jew who became a physician's assistant, sort of a doctor-lite, attempted to become an attorney, and then ultimately became a medico-legal investigator for the ME's office, which is essentially the dude who goes to the sites of the murders (and also totally non-exciting natural deaths, etc.) and determines that they are actually murders (or natural deaths, or accidents, or what have you).

along the way he leaves the orthodox jewish community, climbs the ladder of management at the ME's office, develops insanely complex systems to deal with the aftermath of 9/11, and then goes on to write this book. i liked his writing style because thi