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...

Beneath the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore lies the Anatomical Services Division, the department responsible for...

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...

At the suggestion of my brilliant agent, "Death, It's A Living: A Guide to Postmortem Professions" is changing course a little bit and...

It's been nearly 3 months since Compendium Pandemica was released. The book is now also available online through the library via a thing...

IT'S HERE!!!! The book baby is now available on Amazon! Here's a synopsis: "In this fascinating collection of dark medical history,...

Coronavirus rapidly changed the way we do medical education. The internet became the source for conferences, lectures, and courses that...

I recent got on Bookstagram, the so-called corner of Instagram for readers. At first it was really exciting looking at all the beautiful,...

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....

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...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic hospitals around the globe are experiencing shortages of personal protective equipment, and are conserving...

As the death toll from COVID-19 rises in the United States, coroners, medical examiners, autopsy personnel, funeral directors, and other...

The United States is experiencing a shortage of medical examiners, a problem exacerbated by the opioid crisis. In October of 2017, Dr....

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...

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...

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...

Publishing is an interesting popularity contest. Death, It's a Living has had a number of rejections. Publishers are not convinced that...

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...

There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding death and dead bodies. In this article for Thought Catalog, I dispel a few of the more...

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