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Autopsy

Life in the Trenches with a Forensic Pathologist in Africa

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Autopsy

By: Ryan Blumenthal
Narrated by: Ettienne Durandt
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About this listen

As a medical detective of the modern world, forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal’s chief goal is to bring perpetrators to justice. He has performed thousands of autopsies, which have helped bring numerous criminals to book.

In Autopsy he covers the hard lessons learnt as a rookie pathologist, as well as some of the most unusual cases he’s encountered. During his career, for example, he has dealt with high-profile deaths, mass disasters, death by lightning and people killed by African wildlife.

Blumenthal takes the listener behind the scenes at the mortuary, describing a typical autopsy and the instruments of the trade. He also shares a few trade secrets, like how to establish when a suicide is more likely to be a homicide.

Even though they cannot speak, the dead have a lot to say - and Blumenthal is there to listen.

©2020 Ryan Blumenthal (P)2020 Audible, Ltd Death & Dying Medical Professionals & Academics Sociology Crime Africa Forensics

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One of the most interesting books I’ve read in a long while.

Shows the exceptional work done by exemplary people with minimal to no resources to bring us closure from our dearly departed.

They should really make a NCSI show about South Africa!! Would be way way more interesting than the US one.

Interesting to say the least

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I really enjoyed the book and the African twist to it! The last chapter hit hard and I am sure we can all learn something.

Enjoyed!

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I absolutely truly loved everything about this book and have listened to it many times now and would recommend it to everyone...well everyone who loves to hear/read about medical stuff, death, and a good bit of guts and gore thrown in for good luck. Ryan's sense of humour, wit, intelligence and knowledge comes together with his great storytelling skills to make a book that I can never put down, even if I know what's going to happen next because it's the 7th or 17th time I've listened to it because each time I do I laugh, gasp and still feel as much shock as I did the 1st time round. It's bloody brilliant and I love it.

Absolutely bloody brilliant

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I knew we were in for a rough time when the author described the dead as “real victims” (as if living patients somehow aren’t?) and things didn’t get much better from there. There weren’t any personal details or professional stories for the reader to connect with, so the book came across as a moral lecture rather than anything satisfying or edifying. I’ve read much more empathetic and engaging books by forensic pathologists.

I returned this book.

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Told me what I should be grateful for in life and that I should “take five deep breaths upon waking in the mornings” . Said a lot about the hardships faced by forensic pathologists in South Africa. There was not much written at all about actual autopsy’s. Pretty boring.

More of a moral preaching exercise

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