Many coroner and medical examiner offices — government agencies — don’t provide access to the local medicolegal death investigation data they generate.
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Intimate Partner Violence and Murder-Suicides
When intimate partner violence turns deadly: cases, facts, analysis, and a closer look at murder-suicides.
The Forensic Pathologist Shortage
October 30, 2022 The number of forensic pathologists (FPs), the specialists who do medicolegal autopsies, has not kept pace with the increase of drug deaths and other violent deaths. Consequently, there is now a national shortage of these physicians who are essential to coroner and medical examiner (C/ME) death investigations. The forensic pathologist shortage hobbles…