A Physician's Guide to Clinical Forensic Medicine

Forensic examination of those alleging sexual assault can be appropriately provided within sexual health services, but requires additional skills. The examinations are lengthy, detailed, frequently nocturnal, and often lead to an appearance at the Old Bailey. A distressed individual will need to be examined from head to toe, with every injury described, measured, and drawn. The correct samples must be taken, timed, labelled and bagged with due attention to the chain of evidence. Subsequently the doctor may …