Forensic Radiology

What must be understood first about forensic radiology is that as of late 1998 it is not a term in wide and common use in the professional literature. To be sure, forensic medicine has long been a part of scientific discourse, associated in both the popular culture and in scientific, professional, and law-enforcement circles principally with examination of human corpses for the purpose of determining an otherwise unexplained cause of death. Also called medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine is the name given to "application of medical science to the solution of legal questions that have a medical aspect," and it is associated with providing expert legal testimony derived from evidence obtained by way of the scientific method and meant to facilitate the presentation of facts in criminal cases. Radiology, in medicine, is one name (the other is radiotherapy) given to the use of x-ray technology to treat cancer, while radiographs, the product of x-ray photography, are us

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be aware of appropriate protocols for tracking and documenting the physical facts of a given case, and for being attentive to the details of proper record keeping. In short, what begins as clinical radiology may end as forensic radiology. Information sharing seems essential, even though at least one study indicates a degradation in record-keeping techniques in general and in x-ray activity in particular at one hospital facility in cases of suspected child abuse between 1980 and 1995. Indeed, the completeness of clinical records at the time of examination appears to be of special significance where medical jurisprudence may become an issue. Prospective expert witnesses who examine medical records, including x-rays, are advised by seasoned veterans of courtroom testimony to make note of whether the x-rays and any accompanying clinical documentation were produced at about the same time as the patient was examined or at a later date, for the reason that "medical records . . . created by persons who were not present at a particular treatment event . . . can create a startlingly different picture of what happened" than those created by immediate participants in treatment. But not all skeletal or other internal injuries are matched by
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