Texas Tech To Stop Performing Autopsies
By: Allison Morrison
Updated: July 27, 2009
After nearly a year to prepare, Lubbock County officials say they're not completely ready to take over the Medical Examiner's office from Texas Tech.
Beginning August 31st, Texas Tech University Health Science Center will no longer perform autopsies for the more than 80 counties that depend on them.
Lubbock County was planning on picking up all out-of-county autopsies at that time, but Judge Tom Head says they still haven't hired enough doctors to take on that load.
"In March of this year, I sent out a letter to the County Judges in those 80 counties that said this is our situation and they said we'd like to stay with you if we can, so it's just a matter of getting contracts together, getting the doctors done, getting the doctors recruited," Lubbock County Judge Tom Head says.
