Medicolegal aspects of neoplastic dermatology

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...

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...

Violence toward children: medicolegal aspects.

Andre was wandering the streets of New York City when the police found him. They took him to the station house and finally found out where his mother lived. When they called her, she said "You keep him; I don't want him." The police noticed Andre had a rash, so they took him to Bellevue Hospital, where the diagnosis was chicken pox. That night in the children's ward, a baby in the crib next to ...