 Medical Jurisprudence
Medicolegal experts can provide a link between these two professions for their smooth & effective functioning in a scientific manner. The physician meets the law at every turn. He confronts it when, as the treating doctor, he is subpoenaed as a witness in a personal injury lawsuit, he meets it when his aid is sought as an expert in connection with a claim that another member of his profession has been negligent and when he is faced in his office or clinic by a narcotic addict, a man with a gunshot wound, or a young couple seeking a blood test. He is face–to–face with the law when he is required to render an aggravating array of governmental reports or to preserve physical evidence for the benefit of a law enforcement agency. The physician, in fact, finds a great deal of the law intensely irritating, often because he is not absolutely clear as to its purpose.
The following subjects deal with all the above aspects of Law and medicine.
- Forensic Medicine
- Medical Jurisprudence
- Toxicology
The terms Forensic Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence are used in the practice of Law and Medicine respectively. These two terms are not synonymous.
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