Thursday, April 13, 2006

Avoidable pitfalls when writing medical reports for court proceedings in cases of suspected child abuse / Family Law Week,

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/library.asp?i=1916
Professor T J David
"All paediatricians, paediatric radiologists, paediatric pathologists, forensic pathologists, and many other specialists have to deal with cases of suspected child abuse, and in terms of the generation of complaints from families this is a high risk activity. Many complaints are devoid of merit, but in some cases a complaint is justified because of a faulty approach. This review draws attention to the avoidable pitfalls associated with report writing when child abuse is under consideration." {Originally published - 'Archives of Disease in Childhood', 2004, Volume 89, Pages 799 - 804]