Autopsies
AI in Medicolegal Death Investigation
Are coroners and medical examiners already using artificial intelligence (AI) in their medicolegal death investigations? For what purposes? How will
December 29, 2025
Are coroners and medical examiners already using artificial intelligence (AI) in their medicolegal death investigations? For what purposes? How will
Interpreting postmortem toxicology reports is tough. Here’s what I wish I’d known when I became a coroner.
More families may be seeking private autopsies in 2025. Coroners and medical examiners, at least in Pennsylvania, only do autopsies
Many people, including voters, reporters, and crime writers, still confuse coroners with medical examiners. Wherever you live in America, if
It was my first day on the Colorado doctor’s ski patrol and lethal hypothermia was the last thing on my
The dangers of medicolegal death investigation are many, yet there is little information about the occupational safety of last responders.
October 30, 2022 The number of forensic pathologists (FPs), the specialists who do medicolegal autopsies, has not kept pace with
The cause of death is the specific underlying disease or injury that initiated the chain of events leading to the death.
September 19, 2022 Private Autopsies Private autopsies are a fast-growing and lucrative sideline for many pathologists. Enter ‘private autopsy’ in
The opioid epidemic combined with a shortage of forensic pathologists is affecting the medicolegal investigation of drug deaths.
The Pennsylvania Center for Rural PA (CRP) released an in-depth report this week on the state’s medicolegal death investigation system.