NEW YORK CITY: The city's first female chief medical examiner reveals tales of the job

NEW YORK POST: NYC’s first female chief medical examiner reveals tales of the job 

Birds were literally falling out of the sky in New York City in 1999 when a new forensic pathologist with the medical examiner’s office was tasked with determining why.

There had been the rare occurrence of four patients on respirators with encephalitis, or swelling on the brain, at a small hospital in Queens around the same time, and when one of them died, the agency was put on the case.

“We didn’t know what virus this was. Nobody knew what was going on,’’ recalled Dr. Barbara Sampson, who had joined the ME’s office only a year earlier — and would become its first female chief 15 years later.....

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