NPR News Investigation: Post Mortem
Did you know, in some places, you don’t need a medical degree to run a coroner’s office? I didn’t either.
If you haven’t listened to NPR’s fantastic reporting — with PBS’s “Frontline” and ProPublica — on the problems with death investigation in America, do take some time to explore the series. It’s another of public broadcasting’s in-depth looks at routine local government dysfunction perpetuated by incompetence, politics, public ignorance, corruption, and other seemingly endemic ills that wreak havoc on people’s lives yet get next to no mainstream media attention.
To fix any problem, the public must first know the facts, and this series does a fantastic job of bringing the ones surrounding medical investigations to the surface. It’s up to the public to demand that local leaders step up and make changes to improve these systems.