A Case of Medico-Legal Interest

FORENSIC PAIN MEDICINE Medico-legal Rounds: Medico-legal Issues and Alleged Breaches of “Standards of Medical Care” in Opioid Rotation to Methadone: A Case Report

Objectives. The objectives of this medico-legal case report were the following: 1) To present an example of a medico-legal problem that developed as a result of a decision to rotate a chronic pain patient (CPP) to methadone in order to taper the CPP from oxycodone; 2) To present both the plaintiff’s and defendant’s expert witnesses’ opinions as to if and where the care of that patient fell belo...

Medico-legal rounds: Medico-legal issues and breaches of "standards of medical care" in opioid tapering for alleged opioid addiction.

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this medico-legal case report are the following: 1) To present an example of a medico-legal problem that developed as a result of reports of alleged opioid addiction that resulted in a decision to taper a chronic pain patient (CPP) from opioids; 2) To present both the plaintiff's and defendant's expert witness opinions as to if and how the care of that patient fell ...

Medico-Legal Aspects of the Ruxton Case

On a Case of Poisoning by Corrosive Sublimate

ance to the action of the poison. According to him, salivation and even death may occur from the smallest doses of mercury. Every general practitioner must acknowledge the numerous idiosyncrasies that meet him in the prescribing of any mercurial preparation. Hence it is reasonable to suppose that the poisonous dose must in like manner vary considerably. In our own city Dr Littlejohn informs me ...

Some curare murders?

The President: Now it is my pleasure to introduce Dr Ann Ferguson. The title of her talk is “Some Curare Murders?” Well, that interests me. Dr Ferguson is a retired anaesthetist and she says that her particular interest in curare goes back to a research year at McGill University, in Montreal. Then, on retirement, she did the Diploma in the History of Medicine at the Society Apothecaries and her...

Severe acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis secondary to cholelithiasis as a rare cause of sudden unexpected death in medico-legal case: A case report

INTRODUCTION Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an uncommon disease with a wide clinical course varying from mild and self-limiting to severe with eventual death. However, death caused by AP is rare. Most cases of AP reported in the English-language literature are based on clinical data; few are medico-legal studies. CASE PRESENTATION The author recently experienced a case of sudden unexpected death ...