Forensic Medical Sciences

Forensic medicine is medical specialties to examination and diagnosis of individuals who have been injured by or who have died because of external or unnatural causes such as poisoning, assault, suicide and other forms of violence. The suicides and accidental fatalities are examined by a specialist in forensic medicine. Individuals with nonfatal injuries after intentionally self-inflicted or accidental injuries or intoxication are, on the other hand, usually handled exclusively within the health-care system. forensic medicine represents a medical specialty within the legal system. Forensic medicine includes the practice of forensic pathology, forensic psychiatry, forensic dentistry, forensic radiology and forensic toxicology. The main role of the forensic expert is to practise and to mediate a scientific approach to the medical issues raised in a legal context. It is inherent in its very nature that the forensic pathologist, irrespective of principle, strives to assist with impartial assessments, based on science and tried and tested experience. The forensic pathologists, forensic dentists, and homicide investigators, forensic anthropologists commonly testify in court as expert witnesses.