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The King's Coroner

Coroner overruled: time for reform?

As pressure mounts for a change in the way coroners' inquests are conducted more challenges to inquest verdicts are reaching the high court. Last month, quashing the jury's verdict in an inquest described by Mr Justice Peter Pain as "hopelessly flawed," the court recognised "lack of care" as a possible verdict in appropriate cases and clarified the ambit ofthe verdict in cases in which medical ...

Syphilitic Iritis Treated by an Unqualified Practitioner

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?The following notes of a case may be of interest to your readers, illustrating as it does the danger of unqualified practitioners;? B. S., a Hindu male, aged 45 years, came to me with syphilitic iritis. He could not afford a full course of treatment so consulted a Baid (an hereditary ophthalmic practitioner). He applied a mixture of lime, washingso...

Reform of the coroner system: a potential public health failure.

The Coroners and Justice Act (2009) represents the latest in a long series of legislative and policy measures aimed at reforming the coroner system. Unfortunately, the Act represents a continued failure to recognize that the legal orientation of the coroner system threatens its capability to contribute to adequate cause-specific disease surveillance and, in doing so, to fulfil its proper role i...

Personal Assistants

assistant—they can make the arrangements. " Our business cards used to list only our phone numbers. When fax machines became popular, we added our fax numbers. Now, our business cards also carry our e-mail addresses and our home page URLs. What's next? It could be the network addresses of our personal assistants. These assistants will take care of our schedule and may even represent us in many ...