> Most medical schools do not promote or discuss forensic pathology as a possible career path. Last year, only 44 out of 24,399 active residents in subspecialty programs in the U.S. undertook forensic-pathology training. “It wasn’t even an option in medical school,” Todd Barr, a forensic pathologist working under Gilson in Cleveland, told me. “Pathology was barely even taught. I think I had a forensic mind already, back then, but nobody ever said, ‘Hey, you ought to think about forensics.’ And I wish they had.” It took him 13 years of practicing medicine to find his calling in forensics, because he never knew about it.
44 out of 24,399 is...quite something.