Authors: SANGER BROWN
Publish Date: 1919/02/15
Volume: 72, Issue: 7, Pages: 484-486
Abstract
Unhappily it not infrequently transpires that the physician when acting as expert in medicolegal cases leaves the witness stand painfully conscious of having failed perhaps ignominiously in his attempt to lay his opinion fairly before the court In this event he and the attorney who engaged his services alike suffer from a sense of disappointment and discomfitureIn a brief discussion of medicolegal cases in which either insanity is set up as a defense in a criminal charge or it is sought to prove that insanity apoplexy or some other disease has destroyed testamentary capacity it is my purpose to offer hints or suggestions which if accepted might in my opinion measurably minimize the liability to such a distressing experience
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