Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses

Medicolegal aspects of tinnitus.

Types E very acoustical system has an underlying level of noise. High-fidelity buffs refer to the signalto-noise ratio. The human auditory (acoustic) system is no exception. Other normal physiological noises include the sound of the pulse in the inner ear, the opening of the eustachian tube, the noise of respiration , and the like. Pathological tinnitus, on the other hand, is noise associated w...

Medicolegal aspects of conflagrations.

Medicolegal aspects of telepathology.

A pathologist may practice telepathology in another room from the original slide using the hospital intranet, he/she may practice it if a CD-ROM is reviewed with a "virtual histologic image" or digital slide. As pathology becomes increasingly subspecialized, and pathologists are progressively more engaged in practices situations where they may not be in a centralized laboratory location, use of...

Moral Panic and Sexual Offenses against Children

It had all the appearances of a conventional sentencing hearing. The accused sat quietly in the front row of the Middleton Court House with his wife beside him, arm in arm. She gave him one last hug after the judge pronounced sentence: five years in a federal institution. Among the small group attending the hearing were two young teenagers, the daughters of the accused. When the judge handed do...

Medicolegal Aspects of Headache Medicine

A 54-year-old man with an active 1 pack per day smoking history, a history of coronary artery disease (status-post stenting), and chronic cluster previously refractory to a wide variety of therapeutic interventions (including gamma knife radiosurgery) presents complaining of cluster attacks that recently had worsened in their frequency and pain intensity. His prophylactic regimen included verap...