Examiner in Boot Camp Death Still Has Job

[madfloridian]

This is shocking. Florida has had more than its share of medical examiner problems that are not resolved. To think he still has his job is stunning.

Embattled doctor claims support in medical community.

A year and a half ago, Charles Siebert was condemned as the medical examiner with the gall to rule that a boy who collapsed at a boot camp died of natural causes.

His conclusion - that Martin Lee Anderson died of sickle cell trait, a disease that mostly affects blacks - stood in stark contrast to what millions saw on TV. A surveillance camera captured guards hitting and kneeing the 14-year-old.

Protesters flooded the Capitol. They accused the doctor of racism and a coverup. Seven guards and a nurse are scheduled to go on trial here next month, each facing up to 30 years in prison. Siebert lost his job.

Now Bay County, the center of the controversy, has become Charles Siebert's sanctuary, a safe haven, though probably temporary, from the legion of critics who called for his head. Siebert was given his job back by Bay County State Attorney Steve Meadows after being fired by the state Medical Examiners Commission this summer.

But wait, that is not all. Siebert has had other serious problems. There were other investigations.

News coverage from Panama City, 2006.
Siebert Autopsy Review

Several autopsies handled by local medical examiner Dr. Charles Siebert's staff are going under a microscope later this week. The Florida Medical Examiner’s Commission will hear a report this Wednesday, as to whether Dr. Siebert mishandled several autopsies.

Attorney General Charlie Crist requested the commission investigate Siebert's actions in April, specifying at least three autopsies.

Fifty-five-year-old James Madison Terry and his daughter Donna Faye Terry Reed, 35, were killed by a tornado spawned by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004.

Reed's autopsy report stated her prostate gland and testes were unremarkable. Women do not have those organs. Terry's report failed to mention some major wounds.

There was another examiner in a botched autopsy. A strange one that took place in Florida. Not fond of this site, but this part will suffice. A famous case that just went away.

CAICA Headline news

Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old worker for Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fl) who was found dead in the congressman's district office in Fort Walton Beach on June 20, 2001, shortly after 8 a.m. Preliminary findings from the medical examiner's office by associate ME Dr. Michael Berkland of Okaloosa County showed "no foul play or any outward indication of suicide". There was no follow-up, no investigation but instead what appeared to be yet another big cover-up. There were no witnesses to the death and the cause of death was not apparent. Klausutis' boss, Rep. Scarborough had recently unexpectedly resigned from Congress when rumors began circulating about his marital fidelity. He also abruptly resigned as publisher of the Independent Florida Sun.

Chairman of the Medical Examiners Commission at the time of the Klausutis death was Dr. Stephen Nelson, Thogmartin's assistant in the Schiavo autopsy. Police denied finding any sign of trauma to her body the day she was found dead and said there was no indication of foul play. Berkland's press release issued two weeks later acknowledged that there was "a scratch and a bruise" on her head. He said the original denials by the police "were designed to prevent undue speculation about the cause of death", admitting that the police had lied to the public.

..."A preliminary autopsy report revealed that the young woman had suffered two skull fractures and an additional wound. A 7-inch crack spanned the top of her head, from right temple to left. The autopsy further revealed there was a fist-sized hematoma at the left temple. The back of her head was bashed and her lungs were filled with bloody foam indicating that her death had not been instant.

Considering the massive damage to the woman's head, it's highly unlikely that she sustained the injuries she had from fainting from a weak heart. There was no investigation and the press accepted the report.

Coverups seem common in Florida. For Siebert to still have his job is a shock.

[TahitiNut]

1. "her prostate gland and testes were unremarkable"?????

"her"?





:rofl:

Gosh ... I wonder where she got them and whether they take MasterCard.

:rofl:

[madfloridian]

2. That part really caught my eye.

As bad as the sickle cell anemia diagnosis when he was beaten.

[xxqqqzme]

3. One thing I know for certain

I am staying the hell out of Florida.