Can medical examiners prescribe medications

Answer 1

Medical examiners are physicians (M.D. or D.O.) who have also completed a three to four year post-doctoral residency in pathology at a major U.S. medical center. Most of them as board-certified by the American Board of Pathology or the American Osteopathic Board of Pathology. As physicians licenced to practice medicine and surgery, they are authorized to prescribe medications. However, it isn't likely that physicians who specifically choose to become Medical Examiners would ever use their prescription privilege, since their "patients" are no longer among the living.