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inlawrev-3573	Friedman, Lawrence M.; Davies, Paul W.	California Death Trip	2003	16	.pdf	application/pdf	8189	499	71	In the early 1950s, in Kentucky, a survey of eighty-two counties found eleven doctors and thirty-one undertakers in the ranks ofthe coroners (there were also farmers, farm laborers, taxi drivers, and persons with no occupation); in Minnesota, however, there were forty-seven doctors, and only twenty-six undertakers (along with a scattering ofothers—^three osteopaths, one dentist, two insurance salesmen, among others).^* In Marin and the other counties too, the coroner tended to dominate the proceedings, as far as we can tell. By the 1990s, most states had either gotten rid ofthe coroner altogether, and replaced this office with a medical examiner, or with a mixed system of some sort—both a medical examiner and a coroner; or a system in which some counties had coroners, and others had medical examiners.^ California retains the office ofcoroner, pure and simple, in many of its counties.	cache/inlawrev-3573.pdf	txt/inlawrev-3573.txt