In general negligence means failure to take proper care over something and according to law negligence means breach of a duty of care which results in damage.Medical negligence is not very uncommon;every now and then ...In general negligence means failure to take proper care over something and according to law negligence means breach of a duty of care which results in damage.Medical negligence is not very uncommon;every now and then cases of medical negligence are reported in the electronic media.Medical Negligence is doing something that one is not supposed to do,or failing to do something that one is supposed to do.Role of Forensic Pathologist in cases of Medical Negligence is always unquestionable.Forensic Pathologists need to explore and maintain a high degree of transparency between the doctors,patients and the law enforcing agencies.In the present case,a person was attacked by a wild animal and he fell down on a rough surface.Immediately he was rushed to a local hospital.The treating doctor stitched the external injury and allowed him to go home;he neither advised any investigation nor kept him under observation to rule out any internal injury.After 12 hours the victim succumbed to death.At autopsy a fractured skull with underlying subdural haemorrhage was noticed.Was not the treating doctor negligent in this case?Were the protocols followed?What should be the role of a Forensic Pathologist in such kind of cases?展开更多
In this article , we report 139 autopsy cases of medical tangle , which were examined by the Department of Forensic Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Tongji Medical University from Jan. 1972 to Dec. 1992.The emphasis is...In this article , we report 139 autopsy cases of medical tangle , which were examined by the Department of Forensic Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Tongji Medical University from Jan. 1972 to Dec. 1992.The emphasis is put on analyses of the status of medical tangle autopsy in forensic pathology, involved medical departments , distribution of victim's age and sex , differences between clinical diagnosis and autoptical conclusion, the composition and causes of medical tangle. The associated problems in forensic pathological autopsy are also discussed.展开更多
文摘In general negligence means failure to take proper care over something and according to law negligence means breach of a duty of care which results in damage.Medical negligence is not very uncommon;every now and then cases of medical negligence are reported in the electronic media.Medical Negligence is doing something that one is not supposed to do,or failing to do something that one is supposed to do.Role of Forensic Pathologist in cases of Medical Negligence is always unquestionable.Forensic Pathologists need to explore and maintain a high degree of transparency between the doctors,patients and the law enforcing agencies.In the present case,a person was attacked by a wild animal and he fell down on a rough surface.Immediately he was rushed to a local hospital.The treating doctor stitched the external injury and allowed him to go home;he neither advised any investigation nor kept him under observation to rule out any internal injury.After 12 hours the victim succumbed to death.At autopsy a fractured skull with underlying subdural haemorrhage was noticed.Was not the treating doctor negligent in this case?Were the protocols followed?What should be the role of a Forensic Pathologist in such kind of cases?
文摘In this article , we report 139 autopsy cases of medical tangle , which were examined by the Department of Forensic Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Tongji Medical University from Jan. 1972 to Dec. 1992.The emphasis is put on analyses of the status of medical tangle autopsy in forensic pathology, involved medical departments , distribution of victim's age and sex , differences between clinical diagnosis and autoptical conclusion, the composition and causes of medical tangle. The associated problems in forensic pathological autopsy are also discussed.
