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May 25, 2025May 25, 2025

Interpreting Postmortem Toxicology Reports

Interpreting postmortem toxicology reports is tough. Here’s what I wish I’d known when I became a coroner.

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April 27, 2025April 27, 2025

Death and Politics: Electing Qualified Coroners

Electing coroners happens every four years in hundreds of U.S. counties, including Pennsylvania. Few voters in those counties even realize they are electing coroners. If you’re one of those voters, it’s even less likely that you’ll pay any attention to the qualifications of coroner candidates. That’s a big mistake. Qualifications to run for coroner are…

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March 23, 2025March 23, 2025

A Coroner’s Posts on COVID-19 in April 2020

In 2020, I used social media for my Coroner’s posts on COVID-19. These are some of the Facebook posts I wrote documenting the first surge of the pandemic in early 2020. The posts are unedited and shown with original images. The quality of writing and graphics could be better, but that wasn’t the priority at…

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Christina VandePol is a writer, physician, and former coroner. She has authored articles on medicolegal death investigation and its intersection with public health, medicine, and justice.

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  • Interpreting Postmortem Toxicology Reports
  • Death and Politics: Electing Qualified Coroners
  • A Coroner’s Posts on COVID-19 in April 2020
  • Private Autopsies in 2025
  • DMORT: Past, Present, Future

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