ARTICLE

Journal of Forensic Medicine

and Medical Science

Providing Expert Testimony and the Related Problems

Oleh:
Puja Afriyani
Novia Rama
Safiyyah

Supervisor:
Dr. dr. H. Taufik Suryadi, Sp. F., Dipl-BE
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Abstrak
▸ Expert testimony is a statement from someone who has special expertise that
can help a criminal or civil case.
▸ Information from medical experts must be able to explain scientific, technical
and terminological language so that someone without a medical background
can understand the problem of a case.
▸ The opinions of medical expert testimonies are useful in several problems
including malpractice problems, criminal acts and mental illness defense,
sexual harassment, abuse of the elderly ,maltreatment of detainees, and in
determining the cause of death.
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Introduction
3 Expert Explanation

Definition
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Task and Roles

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Based
on KUHAP No. 6
of 1981, the role
of doctors in
criminal
justice is as
follows
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CASE THAT NEEDS A DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDICAL EXPERIENCE

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▸ 1. Medical malpractice

Medical malpractice is an act that

violates medical law in the form of Negligence is defined as
negligence, low of informed failure to implement the
consent ,intentional, violating contrac standard of care that
t,defaming,open secret, or failure to
prevent predictable injury will occur should be done so as to
to a patient. cause harm to the patient

Failure to properly review a patient's medical history is often the source of medication
errors.   These errors can include prescribing medication or the wrong dose, giving
medication r the wrong dose, failing to take into account the potential of drug interactions
and failure to warn patients about the side effects of the drug
▸ 2. Crime and mental illness defense

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▸ 3. Sexual harassment
10 4. Persecution the elderly

geriatrics cases involving elderly violence all forms

of physical, emotional, sexual, or persecution in age
care facilities or other caregivers. 
 5. persecution of prisoners
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12 6. Determination of the cause of death

In cases of unnatural death, murder and death of an

unexplained person, a forensic pathologist can be called
to determine the cause of
death.   Forensic pathology involves the study and
diagnosis of disease through autopsy and assessment of
gene markers ( marker genes )
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conclusion
Terima Kasih