"THE DOCTOR'S DEFENSE"

The Role of Doctors in the Pre-Trial

The activities of the criminal justice system began with the commission of the crime and tries to social order is restored and the victim is entitled to the right with the transition from the stages of exposure of a crime, prosecution, investigation, trial and execution of the sentence. Throughout the steps above, the steps taken in the exposure of a crime, prosecution, primarily investigation ...

Defense Capabilities and the Defense Capabilities Initiative

One significant way in which the duplication issue has remained important emerged from the introduction of another factor. By the time of St. Mâlo and the first U.S. formal response to it, the NATO Alliance was also “seized of” concerns about its own military resources and capacities. Having successfully completed the design phase of adapting the NATO Alliance to meet the challenges of the post...

In Defense of the Impossibility Defense

Doctors on display: the evolution of television's doctors.

Doctors have been portrayed on television for over 50 years. In that time, their character has undergone significant changes, evolving from caring but infallible supermen with smoldering good looks and impeccable bedside manners to drug-addicted, sex-obsessed antiheroes. This article summarizes the major programs of the genre and explains the pattern of the TV doctors' character changes. Articu...

Commentary: The clinical implications of doctors' evaluating doctors.

The American Psychiatric Association Guidelines for Psychiatric Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations of Physicians is a welcome resource document for forensic examiners who perform independent medical examinations of potentially impaired physicians. Anecdotal and published reports indicate that requests for such evaluations are growing; hence, there is growing attention to the process of conducting the...