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Coroners Should Be Abolished.

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  • المصدر:
    Scientific American. May2021, Vol. 324 Issue 5, p8-8. 1p. 1 Color Photograph.
  • معلومة اضافية
    • الموضوع:
      CORONERS; LAITY; DEATH; INVESTIGATIONS; COVID-19 pandemic
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      The article discusses about abolishing of coroners. Topics of discussion includes coroners are laypeople without training in medicine. Coroner practices originates from medieval England, for protecting the financial interests of the crown and investigates the causes of deaths. Coroners are not physicians but require to be of legal age without any criminal convictions to qualify for the job. Counties having elected coroners had higher rates of uncounted COVID deaths due to lack of knowledge.