Michael Baden Quotes

• Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence – fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body’s been out there for a year.

  Michael Baden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Preserves, Tape, Hairs

• It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

  Michael Baden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wound

• We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

  Michael Baden

  Tags in Investigation

• The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who’ve been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same.

  Michael Baden

  Tags in Expertise, Table, Applied, Battered

• That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

  Michael Baden

  Tags in Died, Poisoned, Napoleon

• That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

  Michael Baden

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Benefit, Findings, Table

• I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

  Michael Baden

  Tags in Weekends, Died, Liver

• I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

  Michael Baden

  Tags in Investigated

• Arsenic sticks around and today it’s easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn’t looked for in the common tests for drugs.

  Michael Baden

  Tags in Sticks

Michael Baden (9)

Birth:	27th July, 1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Physician

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