4 Leadership and teamworking
Box 4.1 A junior doctor was asked to examine a child with blunt chest trauma, and correctly identified that the chest movement was asymmetrical and that the percussion note was…
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5 Personality and behaviour
Box 5.1 A senior surgeon walks into the emergency department to review a patient in the resuscitation room. He does not introduce himself and is not wearing any identification, though…
Forensic Photography in the Emergency Department
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New Drugs of Abuse
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Testifying
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Law Enforcement
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Sexual Assault and the Criminal Justice System
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Serology and DNA Evidence
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Treating Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse: Forensic Identification and Documentation
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Elder Abuse
Elder Abuse Adam J. Geroff Jonathan S. Olshaker When I was a laddie I lived with my granny And many a hiding ma granny di’ed me. Now I am a…
