Tulsa Medical Examiner's Office makes do with Crock-Pots and broom closets Office finds substitutes for needed equipment Dr. Joshua Lanter points to the black Crock-Pot holding a large femur bone at the Medical Examiner's Office in Tulsa. The Crock-Pot, the same kind available at Target, sits near a steel autopsy table in the agency's basement examination room. It's a necessary part of some autopsies to separate tissue from bone, but the state Medical Examiner's Office must do without the proper piece of medical equipment called a boiling pot in its Tulsa and Oklahoma City offices. ~Snip~ Paper bags of evidence from murder scenes are stored on the floor in a narrow evidence closet. The anthropologist, currently trying to identify more than 130 sets of human remains, works in a converted broom closet. ~Snip~ The Medical Examiner's Office has nearly 900 pending cases statewide, an improvement from the 1,300 cases backlogged in August. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/heal...cle_03c4d03e-0fb6-5c61-b3c6-9764d99069ee.html
