M. Lupușoru, R. Scăunaşu, C. Bălălău, G. Lupusoru, C. Cristache, C. Badiu, O. Bălălău
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Abstract
This article attempts to illustrate the challenges of medical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. We address and discuss patient and medical worker’s safety, access to healthcare, standard of care and the emerging role of telemedicine, from both, medical and legal perspectives. We conclude that attention should be paid to problems related to allocation of scarce resources, the moral dilemma on who to treat, and pressing legal considerations regarding the medical practice during the pandemic and to burden and stress of the medical workers.
期刊介绍:
The Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine, the official publication of the Romanian Legal Medicine Society, is devoted to the publication of the original investigations, observations, scholarly inquiries and reviews in the various branches of the forensic sciences.
These include forensic pathology and histochemistry, clinical forensic medicine, medical malpractice, traffic medicine, chemistry, biochemistry, thanatochemistry, clinical and forensic toxicology, alcohology, biology (including the identification of hairs and fibres), the physical sciences, firearms, and document examination, physical anthropology, serology, forensic genetics and paternity (with special emphasis on recent advances in DNA technology and PCR), forensic psychiatry and behavioral sciences, forensic odontology, law and ethics, history of forensic sciences. RJLM also includes similar submissions dealing with forensic-oriented aspects of the social science and the area where science and medicine interact with the law.