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Man Who SF Medical Examiner Wrongly Declared Dead In 2021 Is Now, In Fact, Dead

Four years after a stunning mishap where the SF Medical Examiner notified a family that their father had been declared dead, and then he turned up alive, the same man has in fact now died.

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SF Man Identified as Dead Three Years Ago Turns Up Alive, Family Is Flabbergasted

The SF Medical Examiner's Office declared a 50-year-old Tenderloin resident dead of an overdose in May 2021, sending his daughter the man’s ashes. But it turns out those were someone else’s ashes, the man was still alive, and the family is going through quite an ordeal.

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Two New Forms of Fentanyl, Including Tranq, Turning Up More In SF Overdoses

The SF fentanyl supply is getting laced with new varieties of the drug, like the potentially five times more powerful drug fluorofentanyl, and the veterinary tranquilizer with the street name “tranq.”

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$436,000 Settlement Awarded To Ex-Medical Examiner Official Fired After Jeff Adachi Autopsy

A former staffer at the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office says he was fired after refusing to omit all the cocaine business out of Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s autopsy. Today he was awarded a $436,000 settlement.

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Peet's Barista Allegedly Performed Autopsies At Backlogged Medical Examiner's Office

When one pictures a doctor performing an autopsy of a murder victim, the image of an inadequately trained, unsupervised, part-time Peet's barista doesn't usually come to mind. And