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Gunshot Wounds: 5 Things Every Criminal Attorney Should Know

Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, HomicideBy Tara Godoy

1. MD’s get entrance/exit wrong about 50% of the time, per research – don’t go off of medical charts. Most doctors still go off of size of the wound, which is inaccurate. 2. Range of…

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Bruises: 5 Things Every Criminal Attorney Should Know

Assault, Blunt Force Trauma, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Elder/Dependent Abuse & Neglect (Criminal), HomicideBy Tara Godoy

1. Dating bruises – bruises cannot be dated by color. IF yellow can be identified, one can determine that the bruise is at least 18 hours old. All other colors can be observed from the first…

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Diabetes: 5 Things Every Criminal Attorney Should Know

Criminal Law, DUI, ToxicologyBy Tara Godoy

Diabetes Types Type I Diabetes Mellitus – many people believe that Type I Diabetes is the kind you get as a child and if you get diabetes as an adult it is alway Type II.…

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FASD: Legal Implications

Child Abuse, Failure to Thrive, Labor & Delivery, Pediatrics, Psych/Mental Health, Psych/Mental Health (Civil), ToxicologyBy Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

Individuals with FASD have difficulty with assessment, judgment, and reasoning, and often repeat the same mistakes multiple times because of their disabilities. They also do not understand the consequences of their actions. These behavioral impairments…

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What are the effects of FASD?

Child Abuse, Failure to Thrive, Labor & Delivery, Pediatrics, Psych/Mental Health, Psych/Mental Health (Civil), ToxicologyBy Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

The most serious and most common cause of mental retardation in the U.S. is fetal alcohol syndrome. The effects of FASD depend on the timing and frequency of alcohol consumption during the pregnancy. Some of…

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FASD: Who is at risk?

Child Abuse, Failure to Thrive, Labor & Delivery, Pediatrics, Psych/Mental Health, Psych/Mental Health (Civil), ToxicologyBy Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

If a woman drinks alcohol during her pregnancy, regardless of timing and amount, she is at risk of having a child with a FASD. Alcohol can affect an embryo before a woman knows she is…

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: What is it?

Child Abuse, Failure to Thrive, Labor & Delivery, Pediatrics, Psych/Mental Health, Psych/Mental Health (Civil), ToxicologyBy Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

Prenatal alcohol exposure is the single leading preventable cause of neuro-developmental disorders (Zagorski, 2015). Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a blanket term for a number of effects that can occur in an individual who was…

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Legal implications of nasal fractures

Assault, Blunt Force Trauma, Domestic Violence, Emergency Department, Missed Diagnoses, Mitigation, Surgical proceduresBy Tara Godoy

Our medical expert recently got retained in a criminal case where the victim suffered an injury to her nose. She had a reported history of previous nasal trauma but was diagnosed with a nasal fracture…

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Nasal Fractures: What does the literature say?

Assault, Blunt Force Trauma, Domestic Violence, Emergency Department, Malpractice, Mitigation, Surgical proceduresBy Tara Godoy

Legal Aspects in Nasal Fractures Rhinology, 1991 ABSTRACT A criminal act is involved in a high percentage of cases of nasal fracture, and exact medical information describing the damages found is mandatory for the criminal…

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Does the patient in your case have a nasal fracture?

Assault, Blunt Force Trauma, Domestic Violence, Emergency Department, Malpractice, Mitigation, Surgical proceduresBy Tara Godoy

According to Dr. Greg Gilbert, from Stanford University Medical Center, x-rays of the nose serve no purpose in diagnosing nasal fractures: “A nasal fracture is a clinical diagnosis and not one that should be made…

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What is a nasal fracture, really?

Assault, Blunt Force Trauma, Domestic Violence, Emergency Department, Malpractice, Mitigation, Surgical proceduresBy Tara Godoy

Nasal fractures are the most common facial fracture and the third most common fracture of any bone in the body. They most frequently occur as a result of assault or motor vehicle collisions. What we…

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MDMA / Molly: Legal Implications

DUI, Psych/Mental Health, ToxicologyBy Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

Molly is in the same Schedule I category of illegal drugs as heroin, LSD and marijuana. In 2010 the U.S. government initiated severe fines and lengthy jail time for those discovered manufacturing and/or distributing ecstasy.…

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