Our medical examiner’s office is at a breaking point. State lawmakers just made it worse.

Our medical examiner’s office is at a breaking point. State lawmakers just made it worse.

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Peter Cummings of Bangor is a forensic pathologist. He is one of two living forensic pathologists who have examined the original autopsy materials of President John F. Kennedy, and he contributed to the identification of victims from the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade C…