cover image Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner

Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner

Michael M. Baden. Ballantine Books, $6.99 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-8041-0599-6

The function of medical examiners is to perform pk autopsies and determine causes of death; examiners must be expert in forensic pathology. Baden here ``delivers a sobering indictment of a system in which, he claims, fewer than a thousand physicians nationwide are qualified to conduct this work,'' maintained PW. (May)