The Medico-legal Journal, Volume 10Clark Bell Medico-legal journal, 1892 |
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... important injuries to patients have occurred in the course of your experience , in struggles either with attendants or fellow- patients ? A. In ten cases bones were broken , but all were simple fractures . No patient is known to have ...
... important injuries to patients have occurred in the course of your experience , in struggles either with attendants or fellow- patients ? A. In ten cases bones were broken , but all were simple fractures . No patient is known to have ...
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... important part in the discussion at Edinburgh , and is at present the leader in Scotland of what I believe to be a distinctly retrograde movement . He would do well to remember when advocating the cause of restraint or about to order ...
... important part in the discussion at Edinburgh , and is at present the leader in Scotland of what I believe to be a distinctly retrograde movement . He would do well to remember when advocating the cause of restraint or about to order ...
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... importance to show the al- most entire abolition of mechanical restraint , and seclusion as well , which places the question of its abuse wholly out of question : " As to seclusion , I find that the number of persons who have been ...
... importance to show the al- most entire abolition of mechanical restraint , and seclusion as well , which places the question of its abuse wholly out of question : " As to seclusion , I find that the number of persons who have been ...
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... important of our Scotch Asylums , stated that he used restraint only in surgical cases and where the suicidal disposition is exceptionally pronounced . I was not present at the meeting , but on perusing the report of it I felt that the ...
... important of our Scotch Asylums , stated that he used restraint only in surgical cases and where the suicidal disposition is exceptionally pronounced . I was not present at the meeting , but on perusing the report of it I felt that the ...
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... important among women . I recall now one patient who had been in habitual seclusion for a length of time , demented to a degree that rendered her apparently incapable of receiving an idea . Taken out of seclusion by interested ...
... important among women . I recall now one patient who had been in habitual seclusion for a length of time , demented to a degree that rendered her apparently incapable of receiving an idea . Taken out of seclusion by interested ...
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Page 35 - ... in the course of professional employment. 3. A clergyman or priest cannot, without the consent of the person making the confession, be examined as to any confession made to him in his professional character in the course of discipline enjoined by the church to which he belongs.
Page 226 - But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive or intent is a necessary element to constitute a particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 27 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which, if He please, God in a moment executes with ease), Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Page 386 - ... no person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending any patient, in a professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him, as a surgeon.
Page 40 - But it is out of regard to the interests of justice, which cannot be upholden, and to the administration of justice, which cannot go on without the aid of men skilled in jurisprudence, in the practice of the courts, and in those matters affecting rights and obligations which form the subject of all judicial proceedings.
Page 275 - ... where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the dying declarations (2).
Page 34 - A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity...
Page 35 - Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely, may be pursued too keenly, may cost too much ; and surely the meanness and the mischief of prying into a man's confidential consultations with his legal adviser, the general evil of infusing reserve and dissimulation, uneasiness...
Page 36 - ... when the provisions of section eight hundred and thirty-four have been expressly waived on such trial or examination by the personal representatives of the deceased patient, or if the validity of the last will and testament of such deceased patient is in question, by the executor or executors named in said will, or the surviving husband, widow or any heir-at-law or any of the next of kin, of such deceased, or any other party in interest.
Page 43 - Besides, in such cases, during the struggle between legal duty on the one hand, and professional honor on the other, the latter, aided by a strong sense of the injustice and inhumanity of the rule, will, in most cases, furnish a temptation to the perversion or concealment of truth, too strong for human resistance...