"Examiner offices" refers to locations where examinations or tests are conducted and overseen by officials called examiners.
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He then took a fellowship in forensics in the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, followed by a string of positions in the
medical examiner offices of Houston and Newark.
ARM investigators collaborated with Law Enforcement, CSI, The Board of Health, Miami - Dade State Attorny's office and the Medical
Examiners office of Miami.
However, the San Francisco's Medical
Examiners Office confirmed to the Post Thursday that its inquiry into cause of death remains ongoing.
Partially because of the shortage of qualified practitioners, many of the nation's busiest coroner and medical
examiner offices employ physicians who are not certified.
Long before the current economic crisis began shrinking state and county government budgets, many coroner and medical
examiner offices suffered from underfunding and neglect.
With this goal in mind, Smith did a summer internship at the New York Medical
Examiners Office while an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University.
State police say the Erie County
Medical Examiners Office, along with the Cattaraugus County Coroner helped to identify the body.
Across the country, the academy said, coroners and medical
examiner offices are struggling with inadequate resources, poor scientific training and substandard facilities and technology.
In a joint reporting effort, ProPublica, PBS «Frontline» and NPR spent a year looking at the nation's 2,300 coroner and medical
examiner offices and found a deeply dysfunctional system that quite literally buries its mistakes.
«They see it often as wasting money on the dead, without realizing that everything that is done in a medical
examiner office, or a coroner office, is truly done for the living.
Experts say such certification ensures that doctors have at least a basic understanding of the science, and it should be required for practitioners employed by coroner and medical
examiner offices.
They may work for federal, state, and local governments; international organizations; public and private laboratories; medical
examiners offices; hospitals; universities; police departments; or as independent forensic science consultants.