FSC239Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Chisel, Petechia, Spinal Cord
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Ontario fire marshal office, transportation safety board. Ontario has a coronial system of medical death investigation run by the office of the chief coroner and the ontario forensic pathology service. In other jurisdictions - may be doctors, lawyers, police, or lay people. Coroners are medical doctors in ontario, usually family doctors or emergency room physicians. Each sudden unexpected death is assigned to an investigating coroner. The investigating coroner is overseen by a regional supervising coroner and ultimately by the. Additional roles of the coroner: public safety, outbreak surveillance, public inquests, deaths in custody like in prison, pediatric deaths. Institutional deaths: some forms of workplace death. When a pathologist gets involved: when the coroner is unable to satisfactory answer any of the five questions, when there is the possibility of involvement of the criminal justice system. Pathologist performs an autopsy for 2 main reasons: discovery: cause of death, injuries, documentation: writing the final report, presenting findings in court.
