Aim:This study aimed to analyze the judicial reports prepared in emergency services and to emphasize the importance of forensic medicine education for the physicians working at these services and the reflection of the situation to the judicial authorities.
Materials and Methods:Reports prepared by Forensic Medicine Department of Gaziantep University Medical Faculty were accepted as the gold standard and the judicial reports of the same patients prepared in emergency services were compared retrospectively.Results: Most reports were found to be prepared as temporary reports. The concepts of general condition, consciousness, life-threatening clinical status and simple medical interventions were frequently mentioned, while other concepts were not mentioned. The success rate of identifying cases with and without life-threatening clinical status in emergency services was 83.49% and 85.52%, respectively. The success rate of identifying cases that could and could not be treated with simple medical intervention was 84.20% and 58.62%, respectively.
Conclusion:It has been determined that the problems in both mentioning basic concepts and accurate report writing cannot be solved in the judicial reports organized in emergency departments. In order to protect themselves, physicians have a tendency to report the consequences more severe than they actually are. However, it should be kept in mind that this tendency may not protect the physician, but also may cause additional legal problems.
Continuous duties for 24 hours ,36 hours and even 48 hours are very common in medical college, tertiary care ,hospitals, icus, casualty op. many doctors are knowingly or unknowingly doing duties for years together with much difficulties, they burn themselves for their patients, but not getting adequate recognition in the form of money, awards and rewards but they get stress, burnout, diseases like hypertension obesity, diabetes and sleep disorders which result in decreased cognitive functions and adversely affect their performance There are no studies in India regarding sleep problems among doctors
In this study, 5318 cases whose reports were documented by Forensic Medicine Department of Medicine Faculty of Gaziantep between 1998 January and December 2005 examined retrospectively. The results were assessed and tried to determine whether were parallel with literature or not, and to examine in the view of new Turkish Panel Code (TPC). All cases were classified as an age, report date, sex, and types of forensic case. 4392 of cases were male and 926 of cases were female. The mean age of the cases was 28.5±15.7 years and most of them were between 21-30 years old. Traffic accidents constituted most of the cases (28.9%). 5086 of cases had came department before 2005 June, and 232 of cases had came after 2005 June. Analysis of the cases which examined before 2005 June in the view of the new TPC, revealed that 87 of cases which were (0-10 days) daily activity failure should be determined as untreatable by Simple Medical Treatment; and 8 cases which were under 11 ages should not be examined. 23 cases will be determined as a “distinct and permanent scar on the face”. After adaptation of the reports of cases which have the conclusion of “a situation which endangers a person's life” as to new TPC, it is found that there will be no differences between reports about that conclusion.
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