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Dolinak will take over during a particularly rough time for the Travis Co. Medical Examiner's Office. Indeed, until the county is able to hire more doctors, Dolinak will be its only full-time ME, since the only other pathologists, Drs. Elizabeth Peacock and Suzanna Dana, both resigned (although Dana is doing some part-time contract work for the office). The lack of staff has led to increasing workloads, far in excess of the maximum required by the National Association of Medical Examiners by whom the county hopes eventually to have the office accredited and, some say, to an increased number of mistakes, such as the misidentification in 2004 of the remains of an 85-year-old woman as those of a 23-year-old man. (For more, see "CSI: Travis County," June 30.)
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