He is now making an analogy of a body as a house - you check the skull like you wouldn't buy a house without a dining room.
Now saying there is no protocol published that says you should open the skull. This is just what I have done.
Admitting that he has been out of the mainstream of forensic pathology for a long time now...
Oh dear lord! Dr. S is going on about buying a house with a basement in a state where nobody has a basement! And his description of opening a skull during an autopsy surely had to do with soft tissue.
Oh goodie - he admits he's been out of the "mainstream" of forensic pathology for some time.
"I've been out of the mainstream of administrative pathology for some time now," Dr. Spitz. I don't think this helps to persuade the jury of his qualifications to speak about this matter.