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Across the country, there are no consistent requirements for the officials who investigate suspicious and unexpected deaths. Some have no medical training, others are doctors trained in forensic pathology.
“A coroner doesn’t have to ever have taken a science class in their life,” said Nancy Belcher, chief executive officer of the King County Medical Society, the group that met that day.
When a group of physicians gathered in Washington state for an annual meeting, one made a startling revelation: If you ever want to know when, how and where to kill someone, I can tell you, and you’ll get away with it. No problem.