Since then, I've met many other adult children who have quietly confessed the "crimes" they committed when police, physicians, elderly affairs agencies and state motor vehicle departments shrugged off pleas for help.
Calls are received and ambulances are dispatched by a police dispatch center, which is supervised by police physicians and paramedics not trained in emergency medicine [22, 25].
In neighboring India, despite the fact that the law now bans references to a victim's sexual history or character in sexual assault cases, police and physicians still use the "per vagina," or the "finger test," in rape investigations to determine whether or not an unmarried victim may have "been habituated to sex" prior to assault.
Reports of patient death to the police by physicians have significantly increased during the period from 1998 to 2008.
This cut-off was chosen in order to allow comparisons with other samples (e.g., Norwegian police and physicians).
From 1998 to 2008, patient deaths reported to the police by physicians increased to a statistically significant extent.
The reporting of patient deaths to the police by physicians increased significantly from 1998 to 2008 while those made by next-of-kin and others did not.
The workforce is diverse, with administrative personnel, technical personnel (eg, pilots, computer analysts and information technology specialists, police, teachers, physicians, nurses and other hospitals staff), production operators, ship workers, dockworkers and drivers.
The aim of this study was to describe 1) the trend in reporting medical error to the police by physicians, next-of-kin, and others in cases of patient death and 2) the trend in prosecution of healthcare providers for medical error during the period from 1998 to 2008 in Japan.
Perhaps if physicians were policed by their peers there would be less malpractice and fewer lawsuits.
