Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or concerned with both medicine and law, as when medical testing or examination is undertaken for a legal purpose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to, both
medicine andlaw .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word medicolegal.
Examples
-
The short version is, doctors and hospitals are no longer allowing many women to have a vaginal birth after cesarean (or VBAC, pronounced "vee-back") because the "medicolegal" costs are too high.
-
At a more mercenary level, poor communication skills have been shown to be a predictor of medicolegal vulnerability and also of burnout. 2,3
-
I imagine that consenting you for anything would be a medicolegal nightmare.
-
At a more mercenary level, poor communication skills have been shown to be a predictor of medicolegal vulnerability and also of burnout. 2,3
-
Say an unrepresented litigant winds up in the family law/custody context or the personal injury/civil litigation context confronting a lawyer and a medicolegal expert.
-
How can it be that a medicolegal expert can be described by one judge as that of a hired gun and yet never be confronted with this judicial comment/rebuke in subsequent cases – as a warning to subsequent triers of fact?
-
That belief will only hold up for as long as you continue to refuse to actually look at cases – look at who testified as a medicolegal expert – and then look to see if their CPSO/CPO profile corresponds to the area of expertise at issue.
-
It seems to me to be simple common sense that the unrepresented litigant would check the opposing medicolegal expert to ensure she/he ought is qualified to proffer expert opinion.
-
Any fool such as myself can go to the FSCO arbitration unit site and enter the name of this or that regular medicolegal expert who proffers expert testimony in FSCO mva cases.
-
How would anyone know if that is true without actually reviewing child custody cases – and checking the names of the experts who proffered medicolegal testimony against their registration profiles to confirm qualifications?
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.