On this week's episode, Dr. Meredith Pittman (@merepitt) talks with Dr. Nicole Jackson (@NicoleJacksonMD) of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office in Illinois and Dr. Rebecca Asch-Kendrick of the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Minnesota about what they do day-to-day and how COVID-19 and the opioid epidemic have impacted their practices. They also discuss terminology that has been in the lay press recently, including the cause and manner of death, homicide versus murder, and first and second autopsies.

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