Medical examiners in Florida aren’t required to be physicians, medical examiners are only more credible than coroners because coroners could legit just be a former gas station clerk elected because they have a walk in freezer. The entire death examination system in the US is fucking borked
I get you I should become a Florida coroner and just write murdered by police on every death reccord without even checking how they died
“it was cancer” “Those sick bastards”
I mean it’ll work until you get found dead with two bullet holes and are ruled a suicide by the next bumfuck coroner that’s brought in
It’s completel pants on head bonkers that coroners and medical examiners in most of the US are elected positions with no medical qualifications required.
And, like, obviously, you can easily cover up goddamn near anything if you’re already going on the opinion of some weirdo off the street as to how someone died. Let’s see, burn marks, rope marks around the neck, three bullets in the back of the head? He’s black so it’s probably suicide, that’s what I’m putting on the report.
fun fact, I learned about the lack of standards when the Uvalde Coroner was called into the mass shooting and he had to get help from the Medical Examiner in San Antonio because that city does have a medical license as a requirement.
Because there is no local medical examiner’s office, the Justice of the Peace regularly steps in as the county coroner, in addition to presiding over misdemeanor court cases, small civil disputes, and marriage ceremonies. The case was so grisly, and so unlike anything he’d ever had to face, that it required extra help from the Bexar County Medical Examiner in San Antonio.
It’s just so funny that I operate on knowledge gained from reading about incredibly traumatic and factual information - such as “coroners and medical examiners often do not require medical expertise…ask me how I know” and everyone else is just OPERATING ON FUCKING VIBES MAN
What even funnier is that the reason for coroners not requiring medical licenses in most rural areas and even in certain urban areas is that MDs would legitimately get paid better doing anything else, literally even the lowest paying specialties in medicine pay more than being a fucking coroner.
