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Texas Tech will stop performing autopsies

Dozens of West Texas counties face a transition and possible vacuum regarding who will provide autopsy services for the region, with the Texas Tech Health Science Center backing out of the arrangement, according to a report in the Abilene Reporter-News ("Texas Tech to stop performing autopsies, July 22"). Lubbock County, at the end of the day, may wind up providing those services, but they're having trouble recruiting enough doctors to perform the task:More than 80 counties have received a letter that Texas Tech University Medical Center will be getting out of the autopsy business by August 31, which means several counties throughout the Big Country will have to seek other providers. The medical school is doing out of county autopsies until Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).