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Legal Medicine

- Branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and
legal proceedings
- Also called forensic medicine

Medical Jurispurdence

- It is a branch of that deals with the application of law to medicine or conversely the application
of medicinal science to legal problems.

Medical Training

- Practice medicine or Residency Training Program (Specialization) or Fellowship Training Program


(further specification)

Medico-Legal Officer

- A physician who specializes in or is involved primarily with medic-legal duties


- Medical jurist, medical examiner, medico legal expert
- Sec 95 PD 856, code of sanitation
o Health officers
o Medical Officers of law enforcement agencies
o Members of the medical staff of accredited hospitals
- Qualification0 possess sufficient knowledge of pathology and other branches of medicine vis a
vis the medico-legal issues involved.
- Sec 2 art 3 code of medical ethics of medical profession of the Philippines
o It is the duty of every physician when called upon by the judicial authorities, to assist in
the administration of justice”

Forensic science

- Latin word forensis- forum


- Deals with the application of scientific knowledge to legal problems and legal proceedings
- A specialized are of meical practice concerned with the relationship of medicine and law
- The scientific use of medical and paramedical specialties in investigating the cause of a person’s
death, injury and etc.
- Clinical Forensic medicine
o Victorian Institute of Forensic medicine
o Diploma course for medical graduates
o 2 years part time study.
o Forensic medicine does not equate to a lawyer/doctor.

Pathology

- Branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis of disease and causes of death by means of
laboratory examination of
o Body fluids (clinical Pathology)
o Cell samples Cytology
o Tissues Pathologic anatomy
- Autopsy
o Systematic external and internal examination of the dead
- Training
o 4 years of residency training in clinical pathology and anatomical pathology.

Forensic Pathologist

- They go out they are not always in the ward.


- Only 2 forensic pathologist

Mediocolgeal Cases

- Iatrogenic cause

The doctor and law

- Qualify tour witness as an expert.


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