The Case of the Daring Divorcee

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Some years ago, I dedicated a Perry Mason mystery (The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink) with an appropriate foreword to my friend, Dr. Russell Fisher, who, at that time, had just been appointed Chief Medical Examiner of the State of Maryland.

Since that time, I have watched Dr. Fisher’s progress with a feeling of pride in his achievements, and those achievements have been many.

Now, as Chief Medical Examiner of the State of Maryland, he has developed his office so efficiently that in the large urban area of Baltimore, every Medical Examiner’s case is thoroughly investigated and two out of three deaths studied by the Medical Examiner are autopsied. By comparison, in Pittsburgh (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania), a city of similar size, only 6 % of such deaths were autopsied under the coroner system.

Yet Maryland’s medical examiner system cost only seventeen cents in the Baltimore area in contrast to twenty-two per person in the Pittsburgh area.

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