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Kelly Thomas' father walks out as autospy photos are shown
L.A. NOWAs images of the battered face of Kelly Thomas were shown in an Orange County courtroom Tuesday, the homeless man's father stood up and walked out of court, unable to look at the gruesome photos. The autopsy photos were shown...... -
Kelly Thomas died from chest, facial injuries, coroner says
L.A. NOWA coroner’s pathologist testified that Kelly Thomas, the mentally ill homeless man who was beaten by police last summer, died from chest compression and blunt-force facial injuries.... -
Chest compression cut off homeless man's oxygen, expert says
The police officers who pummeled Kelly Thomas during a violent encounter last summer in Fullerton caused his death by cutting off the flow of oxygen to his brain when the fight intensified and they piled on the homeless man, a coroner's pathologist...Tags: Court Preliminary, Lawyers, Bones and Joints, Medical Specialization, Pneumonia
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Jerry Dimitman dies at 91; professor grew prized Asian fruit
Special to The TimesJerry Dimitman, a retired professor of plant pathology at Cal Poly Pomona who regularly caused an uproar when he showed up to sell his exotic fruit at the Alhambra farmers market, died Dec. 14 of a stroke at his home overlooking the San Gabriel Valley. He...Tags: Medical Specialization, Medical Specialization, California Polytechnic State University, Science, Biology
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San Diego sheriff blasts 'Dr. Phil' shows about Coronado death as 'sensationalism'
L.A. NOWSan Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore was not impressed with the two-part "Dr. Phil'' show that examined the death of Rebecca Zahau, including an autopsy by a well-known pathologist that found supposedly troubling facts overlooked by the county medical... -
Decline on autopsies may obscure understanding of disease
Television crime shows have helped popularize autopsies, but in reality these postmortem exams are becoming rarer every year. Today, hospitals perform autopsies on only about 5 percent of patients who die, down from roughly 50 percent in the 1960s. That's...Tags: Crimes, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Symptoms, Diseases and Illnesses
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian dies at 83; 'Dr. Death' was advocate, practitioner of physician-assisted suicide
He was known as Dr. Death, a Michigan physician who helped his patients kill themselves.
In doing so, Jack Kevorkian inflamed a nationwide debate in the 1990s over a terminally ill patient's right to die. And he served eight years in prison for second-...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Obituaries, Human Interest, Laws
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Book review: 'A Death in Summer' by Benjamin Black
Los Angeles TimesIt starts with a dead man. Rich, powerful and headless, Richard Jewell is sprawled across his desk, his hands still grasping one of his well-polished shotguns. There is no small amount of glee in Benjamin Black's description of the scene — "he...Tags: Crimes, Medical Specialization, Civil Unrest, Religious Conflicts, Dublin (Ireland)
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My Turn: Touched by another human's touch
I was deeply shaken to learn I had hypopharyngeal cancer. As a physician, I had access to my hospital's laboratory results, so I took a shortcut: Rather than wait for my surgeon to call me, I looked for my name in my hospital's pathology laboratory log...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Throat, Human Interest
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Sam Chwat dies at 57; actors lost, and learned, accents under dialect coach's tutelage
Sam Chwat was a master of accents who taught Robert De Niro to talk like an Appalachian ex-convict, Olympia Dukakis to talk like a Holocaust survivor and Peter Boyle to talk like a bigot from the Deep South. A modern-day Henry Higgins, he also trained...Tags: Robert De Niro, Medical Specialization, Celebrities, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Human Interest
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Remains suspected to be those of Placentia woman missing for a decade examined
L.A. NOWForensic specialists in the Los Angeles coroner's office hope this week to positively identify skeletal remains suspected to be those of Lynsie Ekelund, a Placentia college student missing for a decade. Ekelund was 20 when she vanished in 2001 after...... -
Place your bets: Which grocery plants will survive?
L.A. at HomeIt's a holiday pop quiz! Which of these plants will most likely live to see another Christmas? Which can survive in a patio pot or flower bed, and which will just end up in the compost bin no matter how......
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