Necropsy Babes!
Posted on 01/30/2005 9:04:14 AM PST by Willie Green
On her first day of an internship at the Allegheny County Coroner's Office, Rachel Geldard helped place into a zippered body bag the body of a young student who had leapt to his death from a Downtown building.
"It was a little overwhelming, a little unnerving," said Geldard, a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh psychology major from Canandaigua, N.Y. "But you get used to it."
More women than men are applying for what Allegheny County Deputy Coroner Joseph Dominick calls one of the most comprehensive and hands-on internships in the country, where students earn class credits for working in the morgue. Out of the 21 interns that started in the latest class Jan. 9, only one is male.
Interns help deputy coroners pick up bodies at crime scenes. The interns sort tissue samples taken from cadavers, help with paperwork, gather evidence, talk to grieving relatives and observe autopsies. Their academic backgrounds range from nursing to medicine to the sciences.
The popularity of the hit CBS crime drama "CSI," coroner's officials say -- with its portrayal of attractive investigators helping to solve murders -- has a lot do with the spike in local female students vying for the unpaid, 16-week internships.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Looks like ol' Cyril is forming a harem 'nat.
This program is hardly innovative...Monica Lewinsky got to handle a stiff during her internship almost 10 years ago!
LOL, he's a chick magnet.
Necropsy Babes!
that ole coot ain't gettin his hands dirty n'at, he is too busy appearing on Greta and Geraldo's shows opining on matters forensic!
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