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La cartella clinica in medicina estetica: aspetti medico legali
No full textSono stati illustrati gli aspetti di responsabilità professionale sanitaria in medicina estetica soprattutto in riferimento alla somministrazione di farmaci e alla raccolta del consenso alla luce delle recenti novità legislative rappresentate dalla L. 24/17 e L. 219/17
Evaluation of judicial and clinical social danger: italian medico-legal and forensic psychiatry aspects and role of psychodiagnostic tests.
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Genetic testing: ethical aspects
No full textThe aim of this article is to provide an analysis of the main issues related to the application of predictive medicine by analysing the most significant ethical implications. Genetic medicine is indeed a multidisciplinary matter that covers broad contexts, sometimes transversely. Its extreme complexity, coupled with possible perceived repercussions on an individual's life, involves important issues in the ethical, deontological and legal medical field. The aspects related to the execution of genetic testing have to be addressed at different levels, starting with the correct information about the "cognitive" meaning they intend (by forcefully disassociating it from the strange "preventive aspect") to the legal medical issues that can be aroused in the field of forensic pathology, medical responsibility and insurance. There is no doubt that in recent years, from the decoding of the human genome, genetic research has exponentially expanded with an equally exponential increase in its use in clinical practice and the ethical and social evolution of it
Studio comparativo tra metodiche di identificazione di età mediante Rx endorali in soggetti in fase di crescita
No full textGenetic risk in insurance field
No full textThe risk-delimiting tools available to insurance companies are therefore substantial and it is also possible to argue that a margin of uncertainty is a natural component of the insurance contract. Despite this, businesses look at the potential of predictive medicine, and in particular the growing understanding of genetic mechanisms that support many common diseases. In particular, the rapid development of genetics has led many insurance companies to glimpse in the predictive diagnosis of disease by genetic testing the possibility of extending the calculation of the individual risk of developing a particular disease to appropriate premiums or even denying insurance coverage
Limits and pitfalls in a lethal infant cocaine intoxication
Full text linkThe case concerns the first Italian report of a fatal cocaine intoxication
in an 8-month-old baby girl found dead in the cradle by her
parents at 6 am on a summer day. At arrival to the emergency
department, the doctors declared the baby dead and the
Prosecutor Office ordered an autopsy and toxicological analyses.
Despite no history of cocaine use/abuse by both parents, toxicological
analyses evidenced a positivity to cocaine in the post-mortem
blood, brain and liver. The legal physician concluded for a fatal
cocaine intoxication. A crucial aspect to the Court was to discriminate
between administration (accidental or voluntary) and intake
(almost accidentally), due to different legal consequences for parents
(i.e. voluntary homicide or inadequate supervision). In the here
presented case discriminating the exact intake was almost impossible
in terms of certainty. Such difficulty mainly derived from lacks
in the investigation activities in the first hours following the death.
Among all possible intake routes, the ‘most probable’ was the
accidental one, mostly attributable to a cradle contamination.
A lack in the site inspection protocol could strongly affect the
case solution making it impossible to offer the Court a definitive
‘scientific’ solution to the case (based on scientifically irrefutable
data)
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