Coroners vs. Medical Examiners

You see them in the police procedurals all the time: the person every cop turns to when they want to know about the body. I can’t count the number of short scenes in morgues featuring someone kitted out in scrubs tossing around information like time and cause of death.

Obviously, it’s someone with extensive medical knowledge, but that’s where things get complicated. Are they a coroner? A medical examiner? A forensic pathologist?

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