In the UK (except Scotland, which no longer has them), a coroner must be either a doctor or a lawyer: so here, too, we have coroners with no medical training.

In the UK (except Scotland, which no longer has them), a coroner must be either a doctor or a lawyer: so here, too, we have coroners with no medical training. But the office may have different responsibilities: here, their main function is to determine how someone died when there are questions about that, in the first instance via an investigation delegated to appropriate professionals and then, where necessary, by presiding over a judicial inquest.