""Forensic
Medicine" has been defined as application of
scientific medical knowledge to assist
criminal justice administration system or
course of law. Forensic
medicine is
a broad term used to describe a group of
medical specialties which deal with the
examination and diagnosis of individuals who
have been injured by or who have died
because of external or unnatural causes such
as poisoning, assault, suicide and
other forms of violence,
and apply findings to law (i.e. court
cases). Forensic medicine is a
multi-disciplinary branch which includes the
practice of forensic
pathology, forensic
psychiatry, forensic
odontology, forensic
radiology and forensic
toxicology.
There are two main categories of forensic
medicine; Clinical forensic medicine;
Pathological forensics medicine, with the
differing factor being the condition of the
patients. In clinical forensic medicine it
is the investigation of trauma to living
patients, whereas pathological forensic
medicine involves the examination of traumas
to the deceased to find the cause of death."
Source
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