News 15 December 2018

County loses medical examiners

The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors accepted resignation letters from the county’s chief medical examiner and a medical examiner investigator as of Monday, both dated last week.The board appoints the county medical examiner to a two-year term, starting about Jan. 1 and fills any vacancy for an unexpired term, Chairman Jacob Hackman said, citing a conversation with County Attorney Jennifer Schwickerath. The board may appoint any physician of the county who is licensed in Iowa, who is a doctor of medicine, or osteopathy, and surgery.At the Jan. 1 and 2 board meeting, a motion carried to appoint Dr. Lucas Brinkman as chief examiner and all other physicians as deputy examiners for 2018.— For more on this story, see the Dec. 14 New Hampton Tribune.

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