Nashville Scene, "Death on TV: What a deposition of Nashville's medical examiner reveals"

          Next month, Nashville medical examiner Dr. Bruce Levy is scheduled to go to trial in a lawsuit over whether he acted appropriately by allowing a reality television show to tape close-up footage of his autopsy of a naked and battered Francis Reidy III, a 21-year-old man killed in Nashville after stepping into traffic. A second trial, involving a case in which a woman's partially nude and decomposing body was filmed on her stained mattress, goes to trial in August.
           Levy says that the film company assured him that they were going to seek permission from the families to film autopsies of their loved ones. "They had the experience in doing that, and it was something they had to do and it was something they were going to do," he says. "And for the entire first set of shows, they did."
           But the lawyer for the Reidy family, Kathryn Barnett of Lieff Cabraser, says Levy is duty bound not to delegate such crucial matters. "We have expert proof filed with the court that doctors have a non-delegable duty to protect private medical information and to protect the privacy of patients," she says. "The important thing to the families I represent is that he was entrusted with an incredibly personal, private, painful duty, and they're concerned that a medical doctor would show such disregard for their privacy and the dignity they wanted their children to be treated with."