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Medical Homicide and Extreme Negligence
American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 02/26/09
Duncanson E et al. - Criminal neglect typically is defined as the failure to provide timely, safe, adequate, and appropriate services, treatment, and/or care to a patient. In instances of extreme medical negligence, a homicide manner of death is appropriate because the fatality is due to the criminal acts of another. It also furthers one of the major goals of the medicolegal death investigation system, which is to safeguard the public health.
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