I-Team: Gwinnett ME criticized for ignoring grieving families who need death certificates
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- Опубликовано: 13 май 2024
- By Randy Travis
Published May 13, 2024
LOGANVILLE, Ga - Anyone who’s had a loved one pass away understands the importance of a death certificate.
It’s a legal document needed to settle that person’s affairs, to claim life insurance benefits or cancel a cell phone plan. It’s even required before a body can be cremated.
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Why don’t they just change medical examiners? It sounds like she just doesn’t want to do her job. She wants everyone to do it for her and that one she has to do herself. She’s lazy.
She is the lowest bidder.
Shim is pathetic and her contract needs to be terminated.
How cruel to the families. Monster hearts. So sad.
So, she is not accountable to anybody? She has no boss?
Dr. Terry is a liar. They do not need unscrupulous people in positions like these.
Time for everyone who has suffered under this corrupt quack to gather, lawyer up, and take a group civil action.
Just fire her. No taxpayer is going to be upset about medical examiners actually doing their job. If they don't have options work with another city or county like other small towns do. I'm glad that this is getting attention on the news.
Thats the issue...flat fee so there is no incentive for them. Put in the contract that if they dont respond after 5 days they can be fined . Bet thst speeds up the death certificate
The ME needs to be fired for dereliction of duty. The families need to sue the ME personally.
😡🤬. Let me guess,?? I bet it’s all about money. It’s all legalized extortion.
Preventing people from claiming insurance not to mention the investigations that it holds up. If they do this for natural death you can imagine how long they take their time sitting on criminal investigations
If the ME died, I hope no MEs are willing to sign her death certificate
It's hard to tell and makes me wonder if an ambulance was even able to come out in the first deceased woman's case.
Sounds like the medical examiner needs to be fired for negligence of duties. There needs to be an audit, sounds like embezzlement somewhere by the doctor.
We had the same problem when my mother died in South Florida until an angel in a police uniform intervened.
This was the doctor who diagnosed her with late-stage cancer. Personally, I think it had to do with us declining to transfer my mother to a treatment center in which he had a financial interest and us firing the home care agency that he owned.
Great reporting - thank you.
The ME in Gwinnett definitely doesn't skip any meals.
So where was the body for those 71 days? Was it at the county morgue or a commercial mortuary? Who paid for the storage of the deceased? Is this just a scam by the Gwinnett medical examiner to be paid under the table by mortuaries having to store the body?
Horrible
She is penny pinching because she bid on a lump sum contract. Her lack of business acumen is not the residents fault.
71 days.
Dr Terry needs to be fired . Period ! She’s just lazy.
I didn’t need the death certificate to have my brother cremated. Thank god. Because the city of San Francisco took weeks because someone dropped the ball.
She is clearly not qualified! Cmon
Sounds like the office is Lazy or corrupt!
If no death certificate is issued, can the executor still cash the Social security checks?
71 days is unconscionable. She should be fired, period. Since she holds a contract, this is ample basis to terminate it for cause. It’s the best government contract T4C I’ve seen in some time as a matter of fact
Says she needs to be fired, She's scamming the money. Y'all need to file a class action law suit again't her not the county. Her!
this is deplorable. our taxes pay for an examiner but she doesn't want to do her job and puts people thru even more grief after losing a loved one? that's insidious and bereft of humanity. and what if a death *looks* natural but it's a disguised murder? deciding if it's a natural death vs something else can't be done over a phone call. gross negligence
No trauma and no injuries. Did they take all her clothes off and look at every inch of her body to ascertain that nothing looked out of place? I guess if you want to commit murder in that town just make it look like natural causes. I'd be looking for a lawyer to look at the contract that was signed for Dr. Terry and her business because it seems to me she's violating her duties. At the least these people should be transported to the morgue to be viewed immediately. If they don't have a family doctor willing to sign a certificate because they haven't been under care then you don't know it's really natural causes.
Get rid of her….she is the problem not anything else.
😮 - How in the Holy H*ll is this a problem in GA?
👨⚕️ ~ It literally makes no sense for a random doctor to sign a death certificate. Why not just have a family member sign it then instead? That would make just as much sense. The medical examiner is to do at least a cursory investigation to confirm nothing suspicious has happened. Even if they don’t want to do an investigation, sign the damn death certificate. Like I said, having some random doctor sign it literally defeats the reason we have a medical examiner and that we have the death certificate process. All that will do is start an industry where you have the one doctor in town who charges you $500 just to sign a document, because you have to have someone sign it so he has a monopoly. And he signing it with absolutely zero knowledge.
Sue the county
When my mom died June 2017 at home, in NYC in her sleep we still had to wait 30 days for the Bureau of Records to kick the death certificate out...for her modest insurance policy to be paid to us. As I recall, she was cremated within a fairly short time. The Coroner came to our house to visit as required by law. This in the event there is 'anything unusual" (translation - a homicide)... The FDNY and police officers were extremely compassionate and kind. Once they ascertained she was obviously a well cared for 95 year old woman, who passed naturally in her sleep...an officer sat with her body, kept me company. And then signed off on her remains. At which point the funeral home took care of the paperwork and made sure things were per the 'necro-protocol'. Uncle Jimmy said at the time, "You think LIVING in New York's a pain in the ass? Try DYING in New York.." Mom's last employer kept hassling us for more 'proof', and I still recall with a cringe, their rule bound , appalling stupidity..It boggles the mind, swear to God. My sympathies to all who struggle with bureaucratic nonsense, that paper pushers seem to activate at the worst possible moments - just when a grieving family ALREADY has to has deal with confusion and heartbreak. Ugh..
Fairfax County In Virginia took 12 weeks to issue the death certificate for my son. Country Life would not pay until death certificate was issued. The two funeral directors demanded cash up front. So we had to take money out of our retirement to pay funeral expenses. Fairfax County usually would not answer the phone and when they did they were unsympathetic and rude. Country Companies did answer the phone but they could care less.
Pretty hypocritical of her to criticize doctors for not signing death certificate when it is literally her job to sign off on death certificates and she just “declines”, and still gets paid for it. She should reimburse that man his $9000 and do the only part of her job she’s qualified for, quitting.
Makes no sense. “Seems like a natural…” seeing everyone that Isn’t in hospice care or something of that nature is how crimes are missed
Thanks to this video, both living and dead law-abiding citizens are no longer in Gwynette County and that specific area is now home to barricaded lawbreakers who refused to help now former Gwynette County law-abiding citizens.
Fanny W probably running the show
Shame 😢
That's her job she needs to get over herself, there's a lawsuit against her as well I do believe she needs to be fired reported to aboard if she has to get certification she needs to be reported my mother died at home thank God we have a County coroner and not a medical examiner
I bet Dr. Terry comes running if the bereaved offers an envelope with a "gratuity" when they call.
Service with a sneer. Sounds about right.
It’s a problem. Yet there are 2 sides to every story. Had a case recently suspicious for murder and the local coroner signed it out as suicide with no autopsy, no police/DA, and they allowed a quick cremation allowing someone possibly to get away with murder. Shouldn’t the coroner give the most serious attention to the deceased?
Never knew you needed a death certificate to cremate a body... My dad was cremated the next day...
Someone signed medical paperwork saying he had passed. The official death certificate from the county often doesn't come until later.
The medical examiners excuses are ridiculous
That’s a Woman? And More Importantly What Do Expect from a Woman Medical Examiner?
My husband works for this ME and all over GA it's every county not just Gwinnett
So your husband is a part of the problem.. Ain't that Special!!!
So what IS the problem? What can be done to fix this problem in Georgia? Your husband should have some insight into why it takes so long, what does he have to say about it? Listened to this twice, still not understanding the issue.
She the doctor lady at the funeral home or what ever it was she was just playing stupid she knew she needed to pay overtime what a poor excuse 5:37
😳😳wait
Well, y’all wanted a smaller government and big tax breaks this is what happens. We all just have to do more with less.