{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpushing-up-lilies.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fall-in-a-days-work-hGuoWxOg","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"All in a Day’s Work","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/e6f5b62c-73b6-4771-9a31-5dcfefae3ed9/5399069e-4957-4f8d-a50b-99d4a6bbdd38/pul-podcast-cover-3000.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Episode 06: Welcome to Pushing Up Lilies, I'm your host Julie Mattson. Today I am sharing with you what the life of a death investigator entails. A lot of people have asked me exactly what a death investigator does, and a lot of people will call me the medical examiner, which I am not... I actually am not a doctor, I am a nurse though, and there are very few nurses in this field that do the job that I do. A lot of the people that I work with are actually retired law enforcement, and many of them have degrees in criminal justice as well as mortuary Science, so there are a lot of different backgrounds of people doing the same job that I do. Medical Examiners are actually forensic pathologists who have to be doctors, and they are the ones who perform the actual autopsy, the forensic death investigators that are on scene are actually there to help the doctors, so we do many things when we go out on the scene to assist the doctors in coming to the conclusion as far as what the cause and manner of death are. \n"}