"Live from the Coroner's Office"

Related to another project I am working on, I was researching medication assisted treatment for opiate addiction today and came across some ...

I went to speak at a local high school this morning. I was told that it would be a couple of 10 minute presentations with 30 minutes in betw...

I certainly have noticed it in my kids and others, lack of sleep stirs the emotions . It is indeed as Matthew Walker is quoted as saying: ...

I ran across an interesting posting about dust mites today (I am going home and clean and vacuum tonight). Did you know that there are 42,0...

I was putting together some materials for our Lake County Suicide Prevention Task Force meeting tomorrow and thinking about 2 articles I rea...

To steal a phrase from David Letterman; “I wouldn’t give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.” Busy craziness, anyway… I recently joined a lis...

I got this link emailed to me today and thought I'd share it. It is a "vidi-mentary" on You-Tube about an unidentified toddler...

Posting has been a bit light lately, but it has to compete with everything else that is going on. Last Friday I was whisked off by a limo to...

I’ve been invited to serve on a small (3) panel of presenters/discussion leaders at a conference put on by the Metropolitan Chicago Healthca...

Why does your office do its own investigation of an individual’s death? There are a number of reasons. First, since we are the agency that m...

Our electronic fingerprint submission capability, a recent addition to the office, has really proven to be a benefit. A couple of days ago w...

I had a weird dream last night. As I have said I do end up taking some of the job home with me, at least in my head. I think the dream spran...

I cruised back to a website I visited before, one that appears to give out, shall we say, not the most accurate information pertaining to f...

The Coroner biz is an amalgam of many fields of the arts and sciences. It involves biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, psychology, sociol...

Yesterday’s Chicago Tribune had several interesting articles: Front page article about: “… hospital is the first in the Chicago area to disc...

Earlier today while tidying up some stuff I came across a list that I vaguely remember copying down quite a while ago with the intent of wri...

Last Thursday and Friday I was at the 12th Annual IL Symposium for Child Death Review Teams. In addition to a couple of “business” meetings ...

Hawaiian’s have a saying that “words move mana (energy)”. This can become obvious in many ways, but most recently when a word I used was mis...

There was an article in last Sunday’s Chicago Tribune using the availability of bullet-proof backpacks for kids going back to school to mak...

My mother always told me that fish was “brain food”. Of course the form that it took in my diet at the time was fish sticks. Although I do s...