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Coroners and 'The Big Kill'.(FOR THE RECORD)(Letter to the editor)
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Regulation
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March 22, 2008
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- Olson, Carl
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The best professionals to consult about the possibility of deaths due to secondhand smoke ("Calculating the Big Kill," Winter 2008) are the ones who deal with it daily. That is, coroners and medical examiners.
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Transplant News;
November 30, 1994 ;
563 words
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County launches program to train death investigators; Medical examiners...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);
May 10, 2003 ;
KYLIE GREENE;
367 words
......will pair trained investigators with medical examiners to improve coverage of death scenes...Pathology Associates serve as the county medical examiners. However, they decided they no longer...physicians still will be recruited as medical examiners, the investigators will take some...
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Nurses prepare for roles as death investigators; The program will ease the...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);
November 10, 2003 ;
KYLIE GREENE;
516 words
......program pairs the investigators with medical examiners to improve coverage and consistency...Pathology Associates, who serve as county medical examiners. However, the physicians will relinquish...physicians still will be recruited as medical examiners, the investigators will take ...
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GOV. SCHWEITZER MAKES APPOINTMENTS TO MEDICAL EXAMINERS, VARIOUS OTHER...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
May 16, 2006 ;
278 words
......appointments to the Board of Medical Examiners, Board of Plumbers, Vocational...Administrators. Board of Medical Examiners Anna Earl, Chester - Earl...a member of the Board of Medical Examiners. Qualification: doctor of...
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Medical Examiners Exchange Tales at San Jose, Calif., Conference.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);
September 25, 2003 ;
644 words
......Feder Ostrov Sep. 25--The nation's medical examiners descended upon San Jose this week...episodes of Crossing Jordan and CSI, medical examiners are lionized as miracle workers who...member of the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME), which sponsors the annual...
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FMCSA holds public meeting on National Registry of Certified Medical...
M2 Presswire;
May 23, 2005 ;
203 words
......on National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners, seeks public comment.(C)1994-2005...concept of establishing a list of medical examiners certified to examine commercial motor...a National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (NRCME) program is established, FMCSA...
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UNIFORM STATE SYSTEM NEEDED, CRITICS SAY COUNTY CORONERS DON'T HAVE...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);
October 31, 2002 ;
Teichroeb, Ruth;
787 words
......Only the six largest counties put medical examiners who are forensic pathologists in...population of 250,000 or more can hire medical examiners, while the rest must use coroners...Washington Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners and take part in annual training...
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Medical Examiners, Coroners, and Public Health: A Review and Update
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;
September 1, 2006 ;
Hanzlick, Randy;
787 words
......Traditionally, the emphasis of work done by medical examiners, coroners, and the death investigation...rely on information gathered by medical examiners and coroners, and the role of medical examiners and coroners in epidemiologic research...
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MEDICAL EXAMINERS OFFICE AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS ACCREDITATION
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
July 31, 2006 ;
541 words
......additional sample copy. The Cook County Medical Examiners Office was recently inspected and...accredited by the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME). The accreditation designates...as one of only about 50 accredited medical examiners offices in the nation. The ...
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INTERIM REPORT BY FLORIDA MEDICAL EXAMINERS COMMISSION ON DRUGS IDENTIFIED...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
November 3, 2006 ;
553 words
......Enforcement released the Florida Medical Examiners Commission Report on Drugs Identified...compiled from autopsies performed by medical examiners across the state from January through...specified in this report in their bodies. Medical Examiners specifically collected information...
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2005 REPORT BY FLORIDA MEDICAL EXAMINERS COMMISSION ON DRUGS IDENTIFIED IN...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
May 30, 2006 ;
545 words
......Enforcement (FDLE) released the Florida Medical Examiners Commission Report on Drugs Identified...compiled from autopsies performed by medical examiners across the state in 2005. During...specified in this report in their bodies. Medical Examiners specifically collected information...
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Newspaper report: Medical examiners link Tasers to five deaths
AP Worldstream;
July 19, 2004 ;
346 words
......Worldstream 07-19-2004 Dateline: PHOENIX Medical examiners have found that Taser electric stun...anyone, a newspaper reported Sunday. Medical examiners in three cases involving suspects...deaths, Smith told the newspaper the medical examiners were wrong, and lack the expertise...
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2006 REPORT BY FLORIDA MEDICAL EXAMINERS COMMISSION ON DRUGS IDENTIFIED IN...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
June 11, 2007 ;
572 words
......Enforcement (FDLE) released the Florida Medical Examiners Commission Report on Drugs Identified...compiled from autopsies performed by medical examiners across the state in 2006. During...specified in this report in their bodies. Medical Examiners specifically collected information...
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Area medical examiners say they will not reopen crib death...
The Washington Times;
July 31, 1999 ;
Redmon, Jeremy;
554 words
...Local medical examiners say they won't begin a systematic...Garrett E. Wilson's trial. Chief medical examiners from Maryland, Virginia and...testified in Wilson's trial that medical examiners sometimes misdiagnose SIDS cases...
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