Mutual Relations of Prosecuting Officers and Medical Examiners

Medical examiners, coroners, and bioterrorism.

To the Editor: Federal, state, and local agencies are developing plans to detect and respond to bioterrorism. Medical examiners and coroners should be included in these plans. A multifaceted response team for bioterrorist events includes health-care providers and law enforcement, public health, and public safety officials. Since medical examiners and coroners generally work independently from o...

Medical Examiners and Coroners ’ Offices , 2004

About 2,000 medical examiners and coroners' (ME/C) offices provided death investigation services across the United States in 2004. These offices were responsible for the medicolegal investigation of death. They may conduct death scene investigations, perform autopsies, and determine the cause and manner of death when a person has died as a result of violence, under suspicious circumstances, wit...

Entomology for Medical Officers

compass a general account of those arthropods with which the medical officer in tropical climates is concerned. It goes without saying that, coming from the pen it does, the book fulfils its aim. But it does more than this; it compresses into an extraordinarily small compass, an enormous amount of information. The language is a model of conciseness with the occasional diversion of a gentle gibe...

Child Welfare and the Teachings of Certain Dentists, School Medical Officers, Medical Officers of Health and Other Medical Men

Designation of Army Medical Officers

Sin,?I was glad to sec a letter in your June number on the " Designation of Army Medical Officers," and I quite agree with i 's remarks on the subject. At present all Medical Officers in the Army are familiarly called " Doctors" (whatever their rank may be) ; but where the order of precedence is so studiously carried out as it is in India, the relative Military rank of Medical Officers ought to...