Medicolegal Consideration on Emergency Care for the Rape Victim

, Gook-Jin Moon

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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 1982;6(Suppl DB Error: syntax error):46-53.

Medicolegal Consideration on Emergency Care for the Rape Victim

Gook-Jin Moon

Department of Legal Medicine, Korea University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

The medicolegal aspects of any case must always be secondary to life-saving treatment of patient. This does not mean the forensic aspects must be ignored, for such matters as the taking of blood, saliva or vaginal swabs can be undertaken during emergency treatment, and all wounds and injuries can be described at the same time that treatment is being given. The examining physician should be guided in this matter by the normal standards of practice in his own area. Similarly, the emergency cases to prevent pregnancy, veneral disease and psychiatric trauma must be considered against the background of normal medical practice in this area.

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