The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a New York City medical examiner and the cases-hair-raising, heartbreaking, and impossibly complex-that shaped her as both a physician and a mother.
Judy Melinek is a forensic pathologist and an associate clinical professor at UCSF Medical Center. She earned her college degree from Harvard and received her medical degree and pathology residency training at UCLA. She has worked and lived in San Francisco with her husband, T.J. Mitchell, and their children since 2004.