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The worst part of his job,
Spitz says, is dealing with the
families. "I avoid it like the
plague. Generally I have the
means to avoid that contact
and delegate it to other peo-
ple, but after the plane crash
I had to deal with them
myself."
On occasion, Spitz is con-
fronted with the problem of
having to do an autopsy on a
Jew, which is forbidden by
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Jewish laws. "Jews in general
don't allow autopsies," he ex-
plained. "But most of the
time they don't strongly ob-
ject. They usually give me
permission if I agree to put
everything back in place.
Usually people understand
the need. But Orthodox Jews
vehemently object. We avoid
doing an autopsy on an Or-
thodox Jew if it is at all possi-
ble. If not, it usually gets
resolved with help from the
rabbi and funeral director."
A non-practicing Jew, Spitz
lives in Grosse Pointe. "If I
were more observant I would
live in another section of
town," he said. "My parents,
93 and 83, live in Bloomfield
Hills with my sister.
"The last time I went to the
synagogue was on my bar
mitzvah, but I consider myself
an Israeli and a Jew."
Born in eastern Germany
in 1926 in a section which is
now Poland, Spitz went to
Palestine at the age of seven
in 1933. "My father was a
Zionist and we lived in Tel
Aviv. In 1946, I went to
Geneva to learn medicine
because at the time Hebrew
University didn't have the
faculty for medicine.
"I didn't return in 1948 dur-
ing the War of Independence
because they wanted me to
finish my training. but in
1950, they stopped my foreign
exchange because it became
too expensive to go to school,
and by this time the medical
school had opened in
Jerusalem:'
Spitz became interested in
pathology during his school
years when his father, a
physician, got him a summer
job doing menial tasks in the
pathology department at the
city hospital.
"Each year I was given
more responsibility and I was
eventually allowed to do
autopsies because they were
short staffed," he explained.
"I loved it. I graduated from
Hadasssah Medical School in
1953 and then took an intern-
ship and residency in
pathology."
Spitz practiced pathology in
the government hospital at
Tel Hashomer before being
drafted into the Israeli army
for 21/2 years. "I served as a
lieutenant in the medical
corps in the coroner's office in
the same hospital where I had
worked as a civilian."
In 1959, Spitz went to
Baltimore, Maryland as a
research fellow. "In Israel, I
saw accidents and gun shot
wounds at the border, but I
didn't see any murders," he
recalls. "There was nothing to
investigate. For my specialty,
there was not much to do. I
chose Baltimore because it
had a well known nation-wide
reputation for having a good
medical examiner's office."
"After a year I deciced to
immigrate, but if I wanted to