Joseph Scott Morgan

You know, if you if you're familiar with the New Orleans metro area, it's the parish.

You know, we don't have counties in Louisiana.

It's the parish immediately adjacent to Orleans Parish.

And that's where I got my start with the coroner's office down there.

I'd started.

I was working while I was going to college.

I was working at a private hospital and it just so happens that the morgue was being condemned or was having to be refurbished.

And so this brand new hospital I was working at, they started bringing all of the coroner cases to that hospital.

And I was working as an orderly, an ER tech, a security guy, a psych tech.

I did everything there.

And I started, I was the one that was checking bodies in and out.

And I became friends with the people at the coroner's office.

And to show you how my mind works, being a college student, I started going to autopsies on my own.

I wasn't getting paid or anything like that.

And the forensic pathologist saw that I had kind of an aptitude for what they were doing.

And I became his scribe.

And many people don't know what a scribe is now, but...

you know, uh, autopsies are bloody affairs.

And so, so that, and no, they don't talk into a microphone hanging down from the ceiling.

It's too noisy and cluttered.