GP turned forensic investigator: ‘If you own every trauma you see, you would drown under the weight’
Dr Rachel Marr is the first Queensland clinician to complete the RCPA faculty of clinical forensic medicine's formal training pathway.
For a discipline underpinned by scientific rigour and exactitude, Dr Rachel Marr acknowledges that sometimes the findings she makes are clouded by uncertainties.
The GP is one of only two doctors to complete the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia’s (RCPA) fellowship training program in clinical forensic medicine since it was established in 2015.
Her work involves examining victims of sexual assault and family violence, assessing people accused of crimes and giving expert opinions about how injuries may have occurred.
Speaking of the TV shows that inspired her future career — particularly the US docudrama The New Detectives — she says, “I loved that science was being used in a legal way to assist with justice.”
