"Live from the Coroner's Office"

We work with many agencies in our death investigations. While local police and fire agencies are our most frequent “allies”, we work with a ...

We are at it again. Treading where we think we ought, to best “serve” those that die in our county and their survivors. In a recent investig...

I got involved in a “new” state-wide task force yesterday, the (Nursing Home) Death Reporting Task Force. We will be developing, piloting, a...

We (again that “royal we”) really have some things moving forward with our Suicide Prevention Task Force. We are starting a project, partner...

Confluence of stuff, belying the thought of a “typical day”. Started my day, yesterday, doing a bit of volunteer doctoring (I still do a bit...

Just a quick posting today, something I have been thinking about for awhile. I’m sure none of my deputies would admit that they believe in g...

I’m working on an article for our 2nd quarterly newsletter for local fire departments. At least partly because of a recent incident (ah yes,...

I ran across an article today on a topic that I don’t think gets covered enough. It had a comment in it that really caught my attention as w...

In a study released recently, it appears that a daily nap decreases your risk of dying from heart disease. While, like all studies, it must ...

“Underage drinking cannot be successfully addressed by focusing on youth alone.” You must “create and sustain a broad societal commitment t...

I have been to several meetings lately (and going to another tonight) working on preventing underage drinking at several levels. Last Friday...

Is “social norms marketing” what I have been looking for? It appears to be a unifying approach to addressing an array of social problems le...

It was pointed out to me today that I have been blogging for a year now (220 posts), wishing me “Happy Blog B-Day” (somewhat belatedly, 1st ...

There is a proposal in South Carolina to mandate reporting of “patient deaths that happen within 24 hours of surgery to the coroner’s offic...

I came across an article referencing MySpace that I agree with. It is an interview with a social researcher who has taken a real look at soc...

The other “thing” that came up at the CeaseFire meeting yesterday was the usefulness and effectiveness of “social disapproval”. CeaseFire wo...

I was at our local CeaseFire Advisory Board meeting this morning and was impressed by the number of interventions they had done over the la...

Sadly, it has happened again, a snowmobiler into the lake through thin ice. Every year, at least one person goes through the ice on a snowmo...

Snoring is NOT a good thing. It came up again this morning while we were discussing cases in conference. Time and again the story is that th...

K-mart sells a T-shirt that shows “a male stick figure pushing a female stick figure out of a box to a steep fall” . “The disputed ‘Problem ...