Alyse Gray
When is a Hospital Autopsy Needed?
Say Grandma is 85 and has a long-standing history of heart disease. One night she collapses suddenly and is rushed to the hospital, where...
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Alyse Gray
Dec 29, 20213 min
Nurses, Pathology Isn't Mad @You
Nurse: "Hi I'm calling about the unlabeled specimen." Me: "Oh, yes, we need someone to come label it before we can process it." Nurse:...
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Alyse Gray
Aug 14, 20212 min
Researcher No More
For the past two and a half years I've been watching fellow human beings die from cancer, a disease that kills more people annually than...
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Alyse Gray
Jan 16, 20213 min
The Forgotten Medical Museum
Beneath the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore lies the Anatomical Services Division, the department responsible for...
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Alyse Gray
Dec 20, 20201 min
Postmortem Professions: A Career Guide released as a free ebook
I've decided to release what once was the core of my book "Death, It's A Living: A Guide to Postmortem Professions" as a free ebook. I'm...
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Alyse Gray
Dec 4, 20201 min
The History of Death Professions
At the suggestion of my brilliant agent, "Death, It's A Living: A Guide to Postmortem Professions" is changing course a little bit and...
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Alyse Gray
Oct 6, 20205 min
Plague Month 6: Mushroom hunting
It's been nearly 3 months since Compendium Pandemica was released. The book is now also available online through the library via a thing...
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Alyse Gray
Aug 16, 20204 min
Plague Month 5: Compendium Pandemica: A Guide to Horrible Infectious Diseases
IT'S HERE!!!! The book baby is now available on Amazon! Here's a synopsis: "In this fascinating collection of dark medical history,...
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Alyse Gray
Jul 11, 20203 min
The Joys of Online Pathology Education
Coronavirus rapidly changed the way we do medical education. The internet became the source for conferences, lectures, and courses that...
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Alyse Gray
Jun 29, 20202 min
Plague Month 4: The Emotional Toll of Assembling an Advanced Reading Team
I recent got on Bookstagram, the so-called corner of Instagram for readers. At first it was really exciting looking at all the beautiful,...
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Alyse Gray
Jun 14, 20201 min
Plague Journal, Months 2-3: Loss, Grief and a New Book
Months 2-3 of lockdown have seen increasing unrest in both the world and my mind. In late May a close friend died from coronavirus....
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Alyse Gray
Apr 18, 20203 min
Plague Journal, Month 1: Crushing It
I never thought I'd get to work from home. Normally, I'm a lab rat, but a unique set of circumstances involving a massive research data...
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Alyse Gray
Apr 2, 20202 min
People are Throwing Gloves on the Ground Everywhere and It's Disgusting
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic hospitals around the globe are experiencing shortages of personal protective equipment, and are conserving...
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Alyse Gray
Mar 22, 20203 min
How Death Care Workers are Handling COVID-19
As the death toll from COVID-19 rises in the United States, coroners, medical examiners, autopsy personnel, funeral directors, and other...
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Alyse Gray
Feb 6, 20204 min
When a Genetic Test Result is Positive
On my birthday I received a text from one of my relatives. But it wasn’t to wish me a happy birthday. It was along the lines of, “I’ve...
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Alyse Gray
Dec 7, 20192 min
Dying, it's a Living
I've worked in cancer research for a year now. Seven of my patients have died. I wept for all of them. These are people I've gotten to...
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Alyse Gray
Oct 20, 201913 min
Life at the OCME: an excerpt from a draft of Death, It's a Living
Stryker Bone saw-used to open people's skulls at autopsy The book is taking a new turn as I redo my proposal. Initially, the book was to...
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Alyse Gray
Oct 6, 20191 min
Setbacks and Progress
Publishing is an interesting popularity contest. Death, It's a Living has had a number of rejections. Publishers are not convinced that...
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Alyse Gray
Aug 30, 20196 min
7 Things That Helped My Mother Survive a Deadly Blood Cancer
My mother was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) at age 66, just a month after retiring. At first she just thought it was a bad...
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Alyse Gray
Aug 17, 20191 min
10 Common Myths About Dead Bodies That May Make You Squirm
There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding death and dead bodies. In this article for Thought Catalog, I dispel a few of the more...
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