America’s system for conducting death investigations is a mess. John Oliver explains why we should all be a little more concerned about fixing it.
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I think Coroners and medical examiners are hyper desensitized to dead bodies so that's why they tend be less "respectful" of the dead
There a currently ~50000 neurosurgeons in the world and 7,840,381,000 people on the earth. So there are 7,840,330,000 people in the world who were almost neurosurgeons
13:57 - I hate that I have that exact same Einstein poster hanging 5 feet from me, on my bedroom wall, and have had it for at least 6 years.. It's a good poster... but fuck, now I'll subconsciously associate it with this guy.
3.75 per person per year isn't much but a 1 time payment of 85.00 per person to have the 28B to secure the southern border of America.so ya. 3.75 per person every year fuck off that's way to much
Karens be like: Statistically 100% of people who are vaccinated die so...
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So you're saying that I have the potential to become a coroner in my own state?
REALLY
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This is so insane. In Canada these positions are not elected. That is absurd. Coroners are medical doctors with specialized death investigation training, who have been appointed to investigate sudden deaths. There is a difference between Coroners and Pathologists. Pathologists are medical doctors who are experts in disease and injury. Forensic pathologists have further training and are experts in disease and injury that result in sudden death. Pathologists and forensic pathologists are the medical doctors who perform autopsies, when required. Forensic pathologists may also be appointed as coroners to investigate cases of suspicious death. America, get your shit together. In no way is it acceptable to elect someone with no skills to do these jobs.
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I also almost became a neurosurgeon
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I'm here because of the Lori Vallow -- Chad Daybell case. I wanted to know why people in the comments were happy Tammy Daybell exhumed body was going to be examined in Utah rather than Idaho. I forget the towns/county involved But I wanted to know what difference did it make. (The results are no public yet) She lived & died in Idaho and the cause of death was natural. She and her family are from Utah that's why she was buried there.
For anyone who didn't catch that at 6:45. Dr. Omalu who they are referring to is the doctor will smith play in the movie "concussion". All I'm saying is he has some skin in the game.
Why cant you be felon? Like whats the risk?
Makes you question the Sandy Hook situation a little more, huh...
Can America stop holding elections for everything?
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"Epidemics potentially getting missed" oh how I miss 2019
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I literally didn't have a confirmation that medical examiners were real, til now. A lady died at a place included to work at and when the cops showed up they literally said, " Don't think this will be like TV there will be no M.E. a coroner will show up, because medical examiners are fiction". Hinde sight, funding terrifying.
You have to ask yourself why the cops would be that comfortable with committing a murder yards from their own precinct...
No felons in the audience?
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This program hits the nail on the head. In a very concise, but yet respectfully humorous way, John Oliver has presented the day-to-day horrors and frustrations that Medical Examiners must deal with every day. I direct students interested in forensics and forensic pathology to this segment so that they have a little glimpse of what they will be fighting against and fighting for.
Wtf why would you elect coroners
Is there any department that's not underfunded besides the Army in the USA ?
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I know it's a joke, but it does seem distasteful to think of not wanting this injustice to befall celebrities. Because it already doesn't. This doesn't happen to rich and famous people. Beyonce's autopsy wouldn't be botched and her family would never have to wait longer than absolutely necessary to get answers--even if that meant delaying the cases of people who had died before her.
Clearly people everywhere deserve a lot better care taken of their remains after they die, than having one of several thousand ( in the U.S. alone ) completely untrained, unqualified, and extremely questionable characters like Shawn Parcells who show the dead zero respect. Make medical schools everywhere incentivize students to become Board Certified Medical Examiners....God knows we need nothing but professionals to handle such important things, like autopsy's to determine how someone was killed. Make being a Medical Examiner a really well paid career, and watch the numbers go up at graduation time.
Now this is scary!!!
This program, and this is true, in Europe is called: weekly reminders, why we should be happy not to live in the US
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That guy who just kept quiet, I have a weird feeling that he ate it and not the dog
Just a tip from one of youre british cousin's america STOP MAKING EVERY OFFICE ELECTABLE!!!!
Today I learned that my cat on my left, and my cat on my right, are in fact coroners
0:13 what Model is that Laptop? The Apple iMac Brick?
Strangled by Mike :(
yo why does this hbo funded show not have real captions??? sucks to watch with an auditory impairment :/// esp bc i know yall can afford it 🙄🙄🙄
Good news everyone: the Big Gulp guy, Shawn Parcells, was just indicted on 10 counts of wire fraud for fraudulent autopsies. I'm glad his schemes can be put to rest!
Should I sign and date my post-it note for the coroner?
In the midst of COVID, this has suddenly become a hugely relevant problem that somehow isn't being talked about.
That guy who just kept quiet, I have a weird feeling that he ate it and not the dog
Im embarrassed right now
I miss the show "Forever" wish it had gotten at least 1 more season
Unfortunately with the education level exhibited by John Oliver and many fans who do not comprehend the concept of entertainment, I seem to need to point out the obvious. To date, there have been exactly ZERO deaths prevented. That is a fact. If you disagree, immediately contact your local mental health institution.
In Indiana the coronor can't do autopsies unless they are board certified. So the coronor is only an administrator.
do ghosts on my left/right count as coroners?
Why outsource a corpse involved in a potential murder investigation?
Always wondered where my dog runs off to... turns out he's an Arkansas coroner.
Okay so this might be an unpopular opinion, but I'd actually prefer my brain to be used as a toy for two, probably very very fucked up children, than risk anyone who was murdered be classified as an accident because the person examining their body was part of the group that killed them.
While on the topic of changing the death industry, "ask a mortician" is a great youtube channel that covers a lot of death-related issues worth being informed about. Highly recommend.
In my home county, someone was found drowned in a bathtub with their hands tied behind their back and the coronors ruled it a suicide.
Gotta wonder is any of this has been fixed in the age of Coronavirus
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8:25 Now, I'm no coroner (yet) but I did take a brief forensics course, and while I don't remember the specifics I'm pretty sure one of the assignments was a body found in a burnt out car presented weirdly like a choose-your-own-adventure, and there was _so much_ evidence that can point toward a homicide based only on what started the fire, nevermind any other factors. (If I remember right, that assignment was a homicide pointed to by fabric remnants around the body seemingly a rope, and the fire originating in the trunk with a scorched puddle on the ground below it) So... kinda lost the plot, but "There's no way to know" is just actively wrong and I found it interesting to actually have personal experience/knowledge to prove something like this.
Arkansas is doing it wrong. In fact, they should make being a felon a requirement to become a coroner. That would probably increase the odds of getting people with experience in carving up bodies
My money's on Parcell being a necrophiliac.
They just misplaced my dad's body for a couple of days. Guess I got off lucky.
Watching this after watching a series of true crime daily videos sounds so fucking weird lol
20:55 Ajit Pai and his mug can go f*ck themselves, John has a bucket-size Big Gulp
I love Tracy Morgan 🤣
watching this in 2020, the laughs scared me lol
Ooooooof, that Forever joke stung Oliver especially after THAT cliffhanger of an ending. Still hurts till now.
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Aside from the utterly shocking facts exposed in this story, I think most of us were pretty blown away that Hugh Grant could have been going by Hugh Mungo Grant and yet has chosen not to.
Our president is a coroner
In 2020, the weirdest thing about this particular episode is hearing the audience laugh live.
Watch Forever! U like it😲🤯🤩
3:06 had me pause the video so I could repeat what I heard in my head also IMBALMING FLUID IS TOXIC
Yo, anyone else feel like it sounds weird to hear people laughing at his jokes?
This makes me hope they'll never find my body
Can't believe I'm saying this but this time India beat you to it, we have only Medical Examiner's system and guess what, in almost all homicide cases the doctor performing the autopsy is POST GRADUATE in FORENSIC MEDICINE !! Well the other autopsies are also performed by doctors just they are not postgraduate in that specific field, but they do get their autopsy (forensic) training during their medical school. and when you've been seeing that whole life, A third world country like India keeps qualified people for important stuff as this and the mightiest nation of all, the great America lets Farmers and barbers perform it ? Hilarious but saddening
I actually really liked Forever...
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Fuck. I'm from Arkansas
*he died of natural causes, such as burning*
www.longdom.org/editor/shawn-l-parcells-11149 why is referred to a professor here yet again...
Isn’t that big gulp banned in ny?
Well, I almost married Beth Phoenix, but I didn't. Sweet Jesus on a cupcake spit, fuck me sideways and call me Julia... after everything Trump's ever said, this has to be the dumbest. Or maybe that's the guy who believed him. "Did you believe him?" "Yes." "Why?" "He said so". That's why job interviews exist; so they can test your knowledge! This... this is why America's average IQ doesn't reach 90 points.
So let's see... "yup. Not missin' any limb. Death natural. Next!" That's the American coroner.