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Medical Examiner's Office Among Largest in the Nation
Eight Patch editors toured the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore Wednesday and got a first-hand look into the science behind examining the deceased.
The office at 900 W. Baltimore St. in Baltimore City is a “24-hour emergency medical institution, open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,” said Chief Medical Examiner David Fowler, M.D.
It has one job, and one job only, Fowler said: "Determine the cause of death with a reasonable degree of certainty."
On Wednesday, Patch editors toured the pressurized, refrigerated rooms in the state-of-the-art medical examiner facility, where the job of determining cause of death takes place.
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