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.
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.
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.