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    Alyse Gray
    • Dec 29, 2021
    • 3 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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    Researcher No More
    Alyse Gray
    • Aug 14, 2021
    • 2 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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    The Forgotten Medical Museum
    Alyse Gray
    • Jan 16, 2021
    • 3 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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    Postmortem Professions: A Career Guide released as a free ebook
    Alyse Gray
    • Dec 20, 2020
    • 1 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, 2020
    • 1 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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    Plague Month 6: Mushroom hunting
    Alyse Gray
    • Oct 6, 2020
    • 5 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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    Plague Month 5: Compendium Pandemica: A Guide to Horrible Infectious Diseases
    Alyse Gray
    • Aug 16, 2020
    • 4 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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    The Joys of Online Pathology Education
    Alyse Gray
    • Jul 11, 2020
    • 3 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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    Plague Month 4: The Emotional Toll of Assembling an Advanced Reading Team
    Alyse Gray
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 2 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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    Plague Journal, Months 2-3: Loss, Grief and a New Book
    Alyse Gray
    • Jun 14, 2020
    • 1 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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    Plague Journal, Month 1: Crushing It
    Alyse Gray
    • Apr 18, 2020
    • 3 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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    People are Throwing Gloves on the Ground  Everywhere and It's Disgusting
    Alyse Gray
    • Apr 2, 2020
    • 2 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, 2020
    • 3 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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    When a Genetic Test Result is Positive
    Alyse Gray
    • Feb 6, 2020
    • 4 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, 2019
    • 2 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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    Life at the OCME: an excerpt from a draft of Death, It's a Living
    Alyse Gray
    • Oct 20, 2019
    • 13 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, 2019
    • 1 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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    7 Things That Helped My Mother Survive a Deadly Blood Cancer
    Alyse Gray
    • Aug 30, 2019
    • 6 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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    10 Common Myths About Dead Bodies That May Make You Squirm
    Alyse Gray
    • Aug 17, 2019
    • 1 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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    The Future of Death is Female
    Alyse Gray
    • Jul 23, 2019
    • 6 min

    The Future of Death is Female

    There’s a preponderance of women in the United States entering fields revolving around death. Here's why.
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