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Interviewee: Dr. Steven Campman

Interviewers: Silvia Rosado, Lynne Lampton and Chase Huerta
Subject of Conversation

Time

Notes

Why did you decide to

become a medical
examiner?

0:57

Reason for becoming a

medical examiner

Mostly everyday is
different

2:12

What he likes about his job

There are a lot of

similarities

2:51

Medical is the same, it

doesnt matter what kind of
doctor

4:02

Why did you make your

decision to go into the
medical examining field?

4:41

Everything that some other

doctor does, relates to
pathology/ its the
pathologist

4:56

forensic pathology is a little

more interesting

6:31

watching out for public

health

6:45

forensic pathologists figure

out why people died

7:20

contagious diseases

7:38

interesting cases

8:18

this guy that was found hit

by a train

8:32

talking to girlfriend

10:30

Why he chose to go into

medical field

What forensic pathologists

do.

An interesting case he
remembers

investigating suicide
medical examiner
investigators

11:10

Getting called to court for

homicides

12:00

Case of car crash

13:35

Most homicides are a couple

of gunshot wounds or
multiple stab wounds or
blunt force in old people

13:50

backstory on cases

14:20

los padillos cartel in mexico

charged 17 people

14:30

Marks by torture

16:00

Getting used to seeing

things

16:20

november case man cut up

his wife

17:00

collecting remains

18:00

Emotionally attachment to
cases

18:40

Cases per day

19:30

8 cases in the office, 2

cases maximum per person
per day

19:42

Most countries have their

own medical examiners and
will send American bodies
here if overseas.

22:00

15 times a year seems more

to him

not shocking, unreal at the

end of the day thats what
happened

mostly with children

His job is to tell the truth

about what happened

26:25

Didnt know that his job he

would be talking to the
victims family and get
yelled at about his decision.

27:15

People saying what

happened is impossible and
they dont believe it

28:45

Ex. My kid would never kill

himself on the train tracks.