Medico Legal Issues
Medico Legal Issues
Medico Legal Issues
Dr Chetan
MEDICO LEGAL CASE (MLC) :
FAILURE TO DO SO IS
PUNISHABLE U/S 176 IPC
Act as per law and inform the police and do not be emotional
and be carried away by emotional turbulence, psychological
trauma, plight of relatives, humanitarian grounds, etc
According to rules, you have to register it as MLC
and inform the police of all cases of death on
arrival/brought dead to Emergency / Casualty.
Mixed ingestions
Preserve:
10 ml blood in sodium fluoride (100mg)+ Potassium oxalate(30 mg)
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE OF WOMEN.
Domestic violence is a leading cause of injury to women.
It is a pattern of physical assaults, threats, and coercive
behaviours used to maintain control over a partner.
Behaviours can include ongoing verbal, emotional,
sexual, physical, psychological, and economic abuse,
and typically get worse over time.
Such behaviour may result in death, serious injury,
isolation and emotional damage for the victims.
The medical officer should remain vigilant about such
incidences.
CHILD ABUSE
Instances of child abuse are on the rise.
Medical Officers need to be vigilant in clinical practice to
detect these cases.
CONSENT IN MEDICO LEGAL CASES
CONSENT FOR MEDICO-LEGAL EXAMINATION TO
BE TAKEN IN WRITTEN IN ALL CASES.
Person below 12 yrs/ Unsound mind: the consent of
guardian is to be taken
Consent not required:
Medical Emergencies, Notifiable diseases, Immigrants
Exception : cases brought by police being arrested on
charge of committing offence
New admission to prisons
Court orders for examination & treatment
Under section 53 (1) of Cr.P.C., a person can be
examined on request of the police by use of force
Members of Armed Forces on request of competent
authority in writing.
Consent is not required from relative for conducting
Postmortems.
IDENTIFICATION POINTS OF THE EXAMINEE
Two easily accessible identification points to be
noted down in the MLC
eg: Moles, scar marks, Tattoos, some old deformity
and also Thumb impression
This is for the sake of identification of the person in
future as in Court of law
MLC SHOULD BE REGISTERED AS EARLY AS
POSSIBLE
DESCRIPTION OF INJURIES
ABBREVIATIONS AVOIDED