Jan Garavaglia

Jan: Forensic pathology is not the best paid specialty because you're employed by the county, but it's a lot more fun for me and that's worth it.

Jan: I've never been squeamish with a dead body; I've been squeamish with live people. I always had a hard time inflicting pain on people. But no, the dead have never bothered me.

(describing how her path to forensic science was drawn out) Jan: Well, I started out doing my internship in internal medicine and it just wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be and I was always fascinated by a forensic pathologist at my medical school, how he just puts the pieces together, how you would have just different pieces and you'd put the puzzle together and it just fascinated me. I love the stories and I realize you really could do some good. I was worried about getting out of the field of medicine totally because I felt like I wasn't really adding to society and then I realized I truly was.