Medico-Legal Neurology Now and in the Future

Medico-Legal Neurology Now and in the Future

The world of neurology has expanded rapidly at all levels of clinical expression, drawing in the world of genetics, pre-natal medicine, obstetrics,, immunology, imaging, diagnosis and treatment including neuro-surgery. All these have opened up new frontiers with one particular territory, namely, legal medicine. The practitioner of any aspect of neurology needs to be aware of numerous aspects of...

Cosmetic Neurology: For Physicians the Future is Now.

Medico legal issues.

This chapter gives an educational overview of: * An awareness of the legal issues involved in health informatics * The need for the privacy and security of the patient record * The legal consequences of a breach of the security of the patient record * The concept of privacy law and what precautions ought to be taken to minimize legal liability for a breach of privacy and/or confidentiality.

A Medico-Legal Case

On fhp 3rd August 1902 I held the post-mortem examination on the body of a native female child aged about 4 The ooiice reported that about 15 days before her death shT was accidentally kicked by her brother-in-law, aubsem,tntlv 3 days before her death, she was thrown on the ground'by the same brother-in-law from the lap of her 81 The child's mother brought her to the Campbell Hospital where she...

Medico-Legal Trial

Tim 'rlpppnspd beean life as a draper's assistant, and afterwards carried on holiness oTany ye? as a draper at Hirwaine By this business and by bus j j fortunate purchases ot land which contained coal, he accumulated a^ortuM of about 15,?00/ He was married but had no children uiui niece of his wife, Anne Edwards, the present a? ? 1'W pH with them until 1841. In that year she married David Evan ...