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DOCS RIP NEW AUTOPSY RULES PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Sunday, 29 October 2006
By SUSAN EDELMAN
October 29, 2006
 
Two star forensic pathologists have ripped the proposed guidelines on how to autopsy Ground Zero workers - saying the rules could hinder families from learning if the toxic aftermath of 9/11 killed their loved ones.
Dr. Michael Baden, the city's former chief medical examiner, also fears that some will see the plan as "politically motivated."

Baden calls the rules "unnecessary, redundant and unwise" in a letter to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. And Cyril Wecht, who performed the autopsy on Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son, wrote NIOSH that the requirements may be too costly and cumbersome.

The guidelines set strict rules on whether a death can be blamed on the poisonous smoke and dust, requiring epidemiological studies and saying "it will be years before definitive studies can be performed."

Said Baden: "A regular autopsy should answer . . . how a person died."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10292006/news/regionalnews/docs_rip_new_autopsy_rules_regionalnews_susan_edelman.htm
 
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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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