A shortage of city medical examiners has prompted the union representing the forensic pathologists to urge the mayor and labor commissioner to settle a contract and provide more funding to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to recruit and retain staff.
In a recent letter to Mayor Eric Adams, the Service Employees International Union's Doctors Council called the current staffing levels a “crisis.” When the medical examiners’ last contract expired in 2021, there were 32 full-time MEs performing autopsies on staff. There are now 20, as well as four fellows who require supervision, according to the union.
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