The Medical Examiner
Tuesday 11:15 — The Attorney General for the city of Lyon, France, requests the presence of Dr Fontan on a building site in the suburb of Villeurbanne. The ‘patient’ is a corpse. The Medical Examiner is needed to identify the cadavre, and to determine the cause of death. He has twenty four hours to examine, or refute, all the hypotheses: was it a natural death, an accident, a criminal act, or suicide?
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“We always start with a highly detailed external examination, obsessional even,” explains Pr Michel Durigen, expert witness at the French Supreme Court of Appeal. The observation of the position and the type of injuries, as noted at the place of discovery, indicate the presence of violence. Analysing the wound can reveal the direction and force of blows. Then comes the transport to the autopsy room at the Medical Institute…
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