1.2.3 Bone Detectives

In a qualitative survey to compare perspectives of 57 practitioners and 30 lay (patient) participants of the service provision of nutritional advice, lay participants reported that advice from GPs was either absent or was considered vague, imprecise and ‘meaningless’ as supported by the following quote from a participants about her mother: ‘… I asked my doctor about my mother’s diet because it worried me. I never received anything. He just said “try and make sure she has a well balanced diet…” They were frustrated when they found that practitioners were unable to give specific advice using terms such as ‘surprise’ and ‘disappointment’ to describe their experiences (6). An online survey on weaning timing in UK found that only 39% of respondents rated health visitor advice as most influenced their weaning decisions.

Nutrition and Food Services at the Miami VA Healthcare System is managed as a team by all supervisors. The managers that run the Nutrition and Food Services (NFS) at the Miami VA include the Food Service Systems Manager, Veteran Experience Systems Manager, Clinical Nutrition Manager and the Assistant Chief/Operations Manager. The Chief of NFS, who is a registered dietitian, is responsible for establishing guidelines and ensuring compliance to provide a safe food supply for all patients and residents in the Community Living Center (CLC) according to their medical and nutritional needs. Clinical service procedures and organization is the main responsibility of the Clinical Nutrition Manager. Nonetheless, all the managers, Assistant Chief and Chief are involved in making important decisions in each nutrition and dietetic position.

Some examples of the different Forensic units covered are: DNA Analysis, Toxicology, Serology, Document Identification, Trace evidence, among others. Personally , I would

This book by Kathy Reichs was the inspiration for FOX's TV series Bones.   The book focuses on Temperance Brennan's childhood in the beginning and how she meets Evangeline Landry who goes missing a few years later.   Now nearly 4 decades later Temp gets a new case involving a teens skeleton that makes her think of Evangeline.   Hippolyte "Hippo" Gallant is the one that gives her this cold case, as the skeleton is referred to as "Hippo's Girl" throughout most of the book.   Her past boyfriend, Ryan, is working another case involving missing girls that ran away to follow their dreams of acting/modeling.

After inspecting the murder scene investigators

I always knew that I wanted to work in the field of criminal sciences. However, I wasn’t sure I had the stomach to be a coroner. Someone recommended I watch the show Bones on FOX, and I was instantly hooked. Dr. Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian Institute, and I knew as soon as I finished the first episode that I wanted to be a forensic anthropologist. While Brennan is a fictional character, she is based on books written by Dr. Kathy Reichs.

I finally landed a Diet Tech position, which has provided a wealth of knowledge in the area of clinical nutrition. While working in the clinical setting, I have discovered my love for medical nutrition therapy. Here, I feel that I truly contribute to a piece of the puzzle in helping a patient achieve or meet their health goals. This gives me validation to why I chose to become a nutrition professional and someday, a

1. What are Stephanie’s current BMI and BMI-for-age percentile? How is her weight classified based on the recommendations? • Stephanie’s calculated BMI is 17.9. According to the CDC growth charts, she is in the 90th% BMI-for-age and the NICH classifies her as overweight (Brown et al., 2016).

Forensic Technicians are an important part of law enforcement. They make up 11% of law enforcement. That may seem like a small amount in the law enforcement field, but they have such an important role even in such small numbers. This is why I am interested in this field. I would love to play such a massive role in impacting the lives of the people in my community.

Some of the overlapping areas of the subfields of anthropology are that forensic anthropology and osteology are connected because a forensic anthropology relies on processes that osteologists use to determine how an individual died, weather it was from diseases, natural causes, or other causes. Forensic anthropologists used the same methods when human remains are found in an archeological site, forensic anthropologists determine if the remains are recent or the remains of a hominin. Another overlapping area would be primate paleontology and primatology. These two subfields are similar because on focuses on the habits, environment, and lifestyles of fossilized primates while the other subfield focuses on the behavior patterns of primates and how they differ from the behavior of humans and other non-human primates. It is important to understand humankind from a holistic perspective because it will show how humans developed and evolved and adapted to their environments

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, is a coming of age story of a young girl in a world of men. We first see her as a quiet and maybe even weak individual but by the end of the novel, Esch has this sort of transformation that allows us to see her very differently. In this novel, we are given the opportunity to follow the Baptiste’s as they live their daily lives in the poor town of Bois Savage in the coming days of Hurricane Katrina. Postmodernism is a theory described as the divergence from modernism that doubts the reliability of grand theories and Jesmyn Ward does a good job incorporating characteristics of this theory into the novel. Salvage the Bones uses postmodernist techniques like, fragmentation, magical realism, pastiche, intertextuality and irony to create different aspects that then work very well together.

Getting a job in forensics takes the ability to incorporate all of the scientific strengths learned and the love for solving crimes. Giving expertise on legal activities also plays a major role in investigating and solving misdemeanors(“Discover Careers in Forensic Science”). Many occupations in forensics can be sometimes labeled as morbid or gruesome. Some of these careers may include, forensic crime scene investigators, coroners, anthropologists, and pathologists(forensic medical examiners)(Palmer). These professions salaries can range anywhere from 50,000 to over 200,000 a year(Kaelin).

“An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments” (Cram). This quote was said by Donald Cram in discussing how an investigator should start an investigation. The job of CSI consists of collecting and analyzing evidence. At a crime scene CSI typically collect evidence, take pictures, make sketches and a variety of other tasks. CSI is a fascinating career choice because one gets to travel, perform a variety of tasks, and gets to investigate and help society by investigating criminals.

Forensic Scientists have varying fields, such as that as lawyers and doctors. As mentioned, a forensic scientist will not always be one man in charge of investigating an entire crime. There are many types of forensic scientists, with varying tools and roles in a crime scene. For example, a crime scene investigator will go to the crime scene and make short and fast deductions with a few amounts of tests that can be performed in a matter of minutes. The tests that will need more analyzing and cannot be done at the actual crime scene will be sent back to the laboratory.

Forensic anthropology is the branch of anthropology which deals with the recovery of remains as well as the identification of skeletal remains which involve detail knowledge of osteology (skeletal anatomy and biology). In other words, forensic anthropology is the application of anthropological knowledge and techniques in the identification of human remains in medico-legal and humanitarian context. Forensic anthropology includes the identification of skeletal, decomposed or unidentified human remains. Forensic anthropology may also help determine the age, sex, stature and unique features of deceased from their remains. Personal identification is one of the main aspects of medico-legal and criminal investigations.