Body lost after state autopsy- MA Gov. Patrick suspends medical examiner hired by Romney as reformer

[Ian David]

By Jonathan Saltzman and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | May 4, 2007

Governor Deval Patrick last night suspended and is considering firing the state's chief medical examiner after Dr. Mark A. Flomenbaum's office acknowledged earlier in the day that it had lost a corpse that pathologists examined last week.

In the latest embarrassment for the troubled office, officials at the medical examiner's Boston headquarters told state officials that they had misplaced the body of a man that had been transported to Boston from Cape Cod on April 23 and autopsied the next day, said Charles McDonald, a spokesman for the state Executive Office of Public Safety.

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He was appointed by the Romney administration in 2005 to address problems at the troubled facility, which had misidentified bodies and made other serious mistakes.

Schwartz said he and Patrick are "horrified by this apparent failure to perform the most basic of duties in this important agency."

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You've really got to nip these things in the bud...

[Raven]

1. Mitt turned the state around alright! n/t

[Ian David]

2. I wonder what GOP donor or official wanted that body to disappear? n/t

[hlthe2b]

4. or mobster.... n/t

[MADem]

3. Yeaah, when he isn't crushing newlyweds by cancelling tunnel inspections, he's

hiring undocumented workers to do his lawn care...and now this!!

Heckuva job there, Mittsy the Shittsy!

Deval is gonna spend the first term just cleaning up that asshole's messes...