Unnatural Causes
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I was glued from start to finish! It’s so interesting and really opens your mind to the work/life of a pathologist in a different way!
I really enjoyed this book from start to finish. Dr Richard Shepherd takes you through his life from his mother passing away when he was a child and his older siblings were teens, to his father's remarriage, to getting into medical school, his marriage and children to his life as a forensic pathologist.
Dr Shepherd takes up on a journey of his life and the cases he has dealt with over the years as well as the grunt work. From lab samples to Post-Mortems/Autopsy's, to lecturing and dealing with the families who have lossed a loved one and the police. He always walks us through the human body and what is what and what should be were. As well as what things look like when things happen to them, such as a hematoma.
Each case varies from Road Traffic Accidents, to stabbings, gunshot wounds, to natural causes, hypothermia, heart conditions, suicides and police brutality, terrorist attacks and infant deaths.
As well as dealing with some high profile cases such as The Hungerford Massacre. Dr Shepherd talks us through the case, what he seen, what he felt and how he performed the autopsy of the killer. He also talks to us about Dr Harold Shipman who murdered elderly ladies to take their estate and money. More cases he talks about is the very sad case if Stephen Lawrence who was murdered by five white youths in 1993. The 9/11 terrorist attack and finally the death of Diana, the Princess of Wales.
Overall it was such an informative and well written book. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Dr Shepherd takes up on a journey of his life and the cases he has dealt with over the years as well as the grunt work. From lab samples to Post-Mortems/Autopsy's, to lecturing and dealing with the families who have lossed a loved one and the police. He always walks us through the human body and what is what and what should be were. As well as what things look like when things happen to them, such as a hematoma.
Each case varies from Road Traffic Accidents, to stabbings, gunshot wounds, to natural causes, hypothermia, heart conditions, suicides and police brutality, terrorist attacks and infant deaths.
As well as dealing with some high profile cases such as The Hungerford Massacre. Dr Shepherd talks us through the case, what he seen, what he felt and how he performed the autopsy of the killer. He also talks to us about Dr Harold Shipman who murdered elderly ladies to take their estate and money. More cases he talks about is the very sad case if Stephen Lawrence who was murdered by five white youths in 1993. The 9/11 terrorist attack and finally the death of Diana, the Princess of Wales.
Overall it was such an informative and well written book. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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