Death Investigations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Published 2019-05-19
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All Comments (21)
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I feel like the sort of person who volunteers to cut up corpses in their spare time with no prior experience or training other than "they want to" is exactly the sort of person you DONT want to be a coroner.
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That guy who just kept quiet, I have a weird feeling that he ate it and not the dog
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This episode reminds of an episode of Criminal Minds where Rossi and Blake go to the coroner and ask if he checked for signs of sexual assault and he says "She was a hooker, there wasn't a need" and they ask him where he went to medical school, and he says he was elected.
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In Italy you need at least 10 years of university education (6 med school, 4 forensic) to even begin to perform autopsies on your own. Just saying...
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You know it’s a John Oliver story when he says “and then they contracted out to private businesses” and then everything goes horribly horribly wrong.
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The victim’s body had 37 knife wounds to the chest and stomach.
It must be a cooking accident. -
How to incentivize medical students to work as a medical pathologist: after working in the office for 4 years; you get debt forgiveness.
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Being a Forensic Pathologist sounds like the medical equivalent of becoming a public defender.
If you don’t incentivize students to take up the profession, they won’t do it unless they’re desperate. -
"They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard."
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If it wasn't for John Oliver, I would not even be aware of stuff like this.
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Aside from the utterly shocking facts exposed in this story, I think most of us were pretty blown away that Hugh Grant could have been going by Hugh Mungo Grant and yet has chosen not to.
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In my home county, someone was found drowned in a bathtub with their hands tied behind their back and the coronors ruled it a suicide.
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"They would "butcher" my last name"
My man really dropped the most cutting edge pun of 2019 huh -
"Death by bonesaw and jumper cables should count as a natural cause and nobody needs to investigate those deaths." -Saudi Prince Salaman
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I wanted his intro to be "Death; The number one cause of death in the world."
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Anyone else watching this in 2020 after the medical examiner in Minnesota said that George Floyd WASN'T killed by asphyxiation?
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And here I am sitting in Germany, where a coroner needs to be a doctor (meaning six years of study in human medicine at which end you have a government supervised exam resulting in approbation) and then needs to be a medical specialist in pathology (meaning at least another six years of study, which again results in a government supervised exam).
WTF America... how? -
It's just amazing how the USA functions as a 3rd world country
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This program hits the nail on the head. In a very concise, but yet respectfully humorous way, John Oliver has presented the day-to-day horrors and frustrations that Medical Examiners must deal with every day. I direct students interested in forensics and forensic pathology to this segment so that they have a little glimpse of what they will be fighting against and fighting for.
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"They can sound the alarm when they spot the spread of infectious disease."
2020: laughs manically