A Curious Call: Stories from a Life in Pathology

• Death catches people when they are absolutely not ready.
• Death levels everyone: the old and the young, the rich and the poor.
• Death doesn’t know weekends or holidays.

They didn’t expect to meet Death: a fitness fanatic who was hit while doing night pull-ups on the road; a huge man who had to be transported in a refrigerated truck; a blind person whose guide dog led them onto the railway tracks and left them there.

Michelle Williams is a pathologist; she wrote a book about how ordinary people do extraordinary work.

In the book, she describes in detail how and with what a dissection is performed, what rules must be followed, and what mistakes pathologists make.