The M.E. was from Texas. I don't have his start date in Pinellas County. Does Texas ring any bells?
Why, yes, I've heard of it several times! :-)
As for a Thogmartin connection, no. Don't see that we need one. The autopsy was far more damaging to MS than his little army guessed. They couldn't wait to trumpet that Terri's whole brain was gone and that that proved Michael did the right thing.
But the autopsy didn't show any such thing. It showed severe brain damage (which everybody knew) -- i.e., not complete destruction; and that damage was oddly localized to the frontal areas. Some of the networking in the back areas was intact. This was new information and helped account for her ability to function despite the heavy cortical damage. (It is well known that injured brains can rewire or reroute functions in order to restore function.) The findings thus suggested the probable cause of her injury to be loss of carotid arterial blood (which supplies blood to the damaged area of the brain). That reanimates the theory that she was strangled by some means that cut carotid artery flow.
Dr. Thogmartin also shot down the old bulimia nonsense (a preposterous theory to begin with, but it was all they had). He all but ridiculed it -- in proper scientific language, of course.
Maybe you noticed, the trumpeting from Michael's camp followers died out pretty quickly.
They cite snippets from it, such as the M.E.'s view that Terri couldn't swallow safely. That's an inference from records, not an autopsy finding. A perfectly sensible view in textbook terms, too; but not indisputable. Terri did, after all, swallow successfully all the years, and was fed at times. Dr. Hammesfahr was just as sure that she could have been taught to eat and drink by mouth again, and he had the advantage of live observation. Call it a standoff; the matter cannot be proved either way.
Another one they cite is his claim that Terri suffered cortical blindness. IOW, her vision center in the brain was so far gone, she couldn't have had any vision. But she did -- before she was dehydrated. Dr. Hammesfahr, again with first-hand experience, published that she was partially blind but he measured some vision. This discrepancy was probably explained by additional brain damage when Terri was dehydrated.
Incidentally, Dr. Thogmartin made a point of remarking the cortical blindness. He did NOT state that Terri had lost all of her other senses (as certain trolls falsely state based on their own imagined understanding of neurology). Surely he would have, if he thought it to be true. But in fact, he was well aware that she had other senses -- could listen to music, could feel pain (as abundantly recorded in her med files), and so on.
In a word, neither the autopsy report nor its author are anything to worry about, imo.