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Course Outline: Legal Medicine, Evidence and Jurisprudence
Course Outline: Legal Medicine, Evidence and Jurisprudence
Recommended Activities
a. Case digests
b. Recitation
c. Short quizzes
d. Periodic examinations (essay/bar type)
e. Case finding and reporting
f. Review of related documents
g. Term paper
Definition of Terms:
1. Law
2. Medicine
3. Legal medicine
4. Medical jurisprudence
5. Forensic medicine
6. Evidence
Cases:
- Board of Medicine vs. Ota,G.R. No. 166097, July 14, 2008
a. Duty
b. Breach of duty
c. Resulting Harm
d. Causal Relationship/ “Doctrine of Proximate Cause”
5. Respondeat Superior
7. Estoppel
- Vega vs. San Carlos Milling Co., GR 21549, decided on October 22,
1924).
- Dr. Emmanuel Jarcia Jr.. and Dr. Marilou Bastan, petitioner vs.
People of the Philippines, respondent, G.R. No. 187926, decided on
February 15, 2012
- Lucas vs. Tuano, G.R. No. 178763 decided on April 21, 2009
- C.F. Sharp Crew Management, Inc., its President, and Gulf Energy
Maritime vs. Noel Orbeta, G.R. No. 211111,
8. Force Majeure
Liabilities of a Physician
1. Administrative liability
- R.A. 2382
- R.A. 8981
- PMA- COE Resolution No. 2011-001
- RESOLUTION NO. 2016 – PRC REVISED RULES AND
REGULATIONS IN ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATIONS
2. Medical-Legal Evidence
1. Personal identification
- importance
- rules in personal identification
- methods of identification
- basic identification of living persons
- basic identification of living and the dead
- scientific identification, fingerprints, DNA
Cases:
- PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. BAYANI DE LEON G.R. No. 197546
Cases
- PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. AMARELA AND RACHO, G.R. No.
225642-43
- PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs AGUINALDO, G.R. No. 130784
- PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. RUFINO UMANITO G.R. No. 172607
- PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. RAMON FRANCICA Y NAVALTA
G.R. No. 208625,
- PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. LUDIGARIO BELEN Y MARASIGAN
G.R. No. 215331
- PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. NONIETO
GERSAMIO, Accused-Appellant. [G.R. No. 207098, July 08, 2015,
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