In reply: One of the issues identified by MacCallum and Anazodo is that a clinically driven increase in reporting deaths to the coroner may further strain an already stretched forensic pathology service.
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I am director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, which is the statutory provider of forensic pathology services in Victoria.