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Bad livers

Medical examiner alleges Massachusetts harvests organs from the undead
By DAVID BERNSTEIN  |  March 3, 2006

Medical examiner Abraham Philip alleges in a Suffolk Superior Court lawsuit that the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) severed his contract because he was acting as a whistleblower. Through this lawsuit, Philip gets to air all of his claims — some subtle, some macabre. In these select pages from a recent motion in the case, Philip demands answers from the OCME — and, given past revelations about that office, including mishandling of body parts and fraudulent contract bidding, one can’t help but wonder whether OCME really is trying to hide something.

Philip alleges that OCME failed to conduct toxicology studies on the elderly and infirm; OCME has  declined to reveal the number of nursing-home deaths it conducted such studies on. Philip alleges that OCME failed to conduct toxicology studies for illicit drugs like Ecstasy; OCME has  declined to reveal the number of such investigations it performed. Philip also claims that OCME harvested organs from accident victims who were not yet brain-dead; OCME says that never happened.

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Bad livers
Dr. Abraham Philip is to be commended for his courage in speaking out against the deplorable conditions under which he and other responsible pathologists were forced to work in the OCME. The issues raised in the interrogatories affect every resident of this Commonwealth. The allegations made by Dr. Philip against the OCME are far from "irrelevant" in this whiltleblower case. The OCME should be forced to give direct answers to these questions. The public, as well as the jury who will sit in judgment of this trial, has a right to specific answers to these disturbing questions. Those who dare defy the system by revealing the dirt beneath the carpet of power and authority, will always face ubiquitous accusations of their being "crazy". The labeling of truth-tellers and whistleblowers as 'crazy' is the first pathetic line of defense taken by guilty parties when faced with exposure of their misdeeds. I believe the jury in this case, like the public, are not as stupid as the defendant OCME and its attorneys believe. Dr. Philip has the admiration and support of a grateful public.
By newsletter_luciacovelli@aol.com on 03/30/2006 at 9:37:44

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