A behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the largest and busiest forensic medical centers in the U.S. Once celebrated as the gold standard of death investigation, the OCME of Maryland was hammered between an epidemic of violence and opioid deaths and strangling budgetary restraints imposed by indifferent state officials, ultimately plunging the institution into crisis.
Readers meet the dedicated professionals who work against increasingly daunting odds, and learn what working at a medical examiner office is really like.
OCME details the precarious state of forensic death investigation, which in many parts of the country is failing to provide essential health services to the public.
OCME was released by Steerforth Press in 2023.