Hi Tanya
I set up this blog so that Mirage Brunet, Megan Casey and Any Stromquist can write about their experiences while taking part in the forensic science course in Miami in May. The material will be useful to me in writing a science page article for the Halifax Herald.
Cheers
Brian
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ReplyDelete17 more days and we will be starting Day 1 of your unique experience at the Miami-Dade facility!
Safe flight!
Tanya
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ReplyDeleteSO today was our first day at the morgue, and I can't believe the amount of stuff we did on our first day! We started by attending the morning meeting where the day's cases were discussed and then a tour of the facility, including a detailed tour of the toxicology lab. Next, we were broken up into groups and our group began in the bone roon while the other group headed to the autopsy room. Our group got the opportunity to perform our first ever maceration. It was an incredible learning experience to actualy touch and take apart human remains. It was also surprising how short of a time it took us to complete the entire maceration (about 45 minutes). Once we had finished the maceration it was time for the two groups to switch rooms. Once in the autopsy room, we watched as one of the doctors cut up one victim's trachea, brain and heart looking for evidence that would suggest a cause of death. It was so intersting to see these things up close and be shown what is normal and what is abnormal. It was imensely more informative than learning from a textbook. Next, we went over to another autopsy table and obsrved another, previously autopsied body. It was incredible to see that all of the bodies from the morning's case list had all been autopsied by noon. I never thought performing autopsies on all of those bodies could be done so quickly and efficiently. After lunch, Dr. Souviron showed us how to perform X-rays on skeletonized human remains. He then gave us an extremely interesting presentation on Forensic Odontology. Dr. Souviron is the Forensic Odontologist that worked on the Ted Bundy case and it was so interesting to meet such a well-known forensic doctor! After the presentation we had about an hour before the bus would be there to pick us up so our group decided to head back to the bone room to choose human remain cases for our reports. It was so incredible to be able to do so much on our first day and the staff were so friendly and welcoming that I am looking forward so much to going back tomorrow morning!
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