title: Broadening of existing medicolegal office legislation.
abstract: Governmental retrenching notwithstanding, there is a need to define the legitimate goals and obligations of our public institutions, so that the good ones do not suffer the same fate as the wasteful or unnecessary ones. This article concerns the broadening of existing legislation governing medicolegal officers and the rules and regulations that may be used to define those officers' procedures.
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D003334:Coroners and Medical Examiners; D003643:Death; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D009518:New York; D014481:United States