1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding author: Dr. Hemanth Kumar R G Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, 580009, Karnataka Email: drhemanthkumarrg@yahoo.co.in Phone no: 9620507547
Online published on 7 February, 2017.
Medicolegal cases form a part of our daily medical practice. Doctor should be well versed in handling these cases because we have an additional responsibility in the interest of the public. Intimation to police, preservation of the evidentiary materials and attending court form the additional duty in a medicolegal case. The present retrospective study was carried out at a tertiary care center with an intention to know the profile of medicolegal cases. Male subjects outnumbered the females, road traffic accidents formed the major chunk of medicolegal cases and patients in the age group of 21 to 30 years formed the majority. The study provides information on the types of medicolegal cases encountered in this region which can be useful to the hospitals to train their residents in handling them.
Evidentiary, Medicolegal, Road traffic accidents
