Forensic Medicine Legal Procedure

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Medical jurisprudence, Forensic medicine, Legal Medicine or state medicine are terms frequently employed as though synonymous. This practices has the sanction of long usage, but not strictly correct. There are two aspects of law medicine relationship , Medical jurisprudenceto edit MasterMedicine. Click and forensic subtitle style Juris =law. Prudentia = Knowledge. It is the subject concerned with knowledge of law in relation to the practice of medicine or the branch of law dealing with the organisation and regulation of medical profession. With the contractual obligations existing between the practitioner and his patient and with the duties imposed on the practitioner by the State. The recognised legal consequences with which the medical jurist has to deal are: 1) Doctor-patient relationship. 6/12/12 1) Doctor-doctor relationship.

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In short medical jurisprudence deals with legal aspect of medicine. The following are a few examples. When a doctor accept to treat any patient, it is an IMPLIED CONTRACT and default on the part of either party render that party liable to have the damages assessed against it, if the default has resulted in injury to the other party. A doctor talking disparagingly about other colleagues or doing any-thing that means unfair competition is liable to face the consequences. The doctor may also face the consequences if he does not inform the public health authorities of a case of Click disease (like small style notifiable to edit Master subtitle pox, cholera) or a police when he comes across a case of homicidal poisoning in his practice.

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It is branch of medicine which deals with the application of medical knowledge and principles to the purpose of law. Its object is to aid the administration of justice by correlating such knowledge and applying it to the purposes of law. Its aim is to elucidate the truth. It deals with the medical aspect of law. Its particular field of activity is that of the judicial investigation, whether in civil or in criminal cases. Forensic Medicine is concerned with topics such as injuries, assault, poisoning, suspected criminal offences and unnatural deaths. The co-operation of the doctor is normally Click edit Master in the investigation of such crimes sought bytothe police subtitle style elucidation (explanation) of medical aspects. This new department of study was known as State Medicine in Germany, and as legal Medical jurisprudence or more correctly, Forensic Medicine, The first systematic treatise on the subject in England appeared in 1787 in Dr. Parrs Elements of Medical Jurisprudence. And in 1801 the first chair of Medical Jurisprudence in Great Britain was established in the University of Edinburgh, the first incumbent 6/12/12

FORENSIC MEDICINE OR LEGAL MEDICINE

TOXICOLOGY- is a branch of Forensic Medicine, which deals with the signs, symptoms, diagnosis ,treatment & detection of poistion.

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