What is the difference between a coroner and a medical examiner?

What will be an ideal response?


A medical examiner is a physician, frequently a pathologist, who investigates suspicious or unexplained deaths in a community. As a physician, the medical examiner can order and perform autopsies. A coroner is a public official who investigates and holds inquests concerning those who die from unknown or violent causes. Coroners may or may not be physicians, depending on state law.

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________ is an irregularity in the heart's electrical activity

A) Myocardial infarction B) Dysrhythmia C) Arrhythmia D) Angina

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The term for a group of nerve cells in the peripheral nervous system is

A) fasciculus. B) ganglion. C) colliculus. D) nucleus.

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The appropriate way to maintain patient confidentiality is to ________.

A. tell the patient you cannot take confidential information over the telephone B. repeat the information over the phone to make sure that you understood it correctly C. put the message in a file folder marked "Confidential" and place the folder on the physician's desk D. tell the physician the information in the hallway between patients E. leave a confidential message on the physician's desk for his attention

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The open end of the PID should almost touch the face with its midpoint centered over the point of entry before exposure

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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