title: Preparing medico legal report in clinical practice.
abstract: Doctors are frequently asked to prepare reports for a variety of medicolegal purposes including court proceedings, worker's compensation, and insurance reports. The aim of this article is to provide doctors with certain aspects of writing a medicolegal report and the common pitfalls to avoid. Due to sudden rise in the consumer cases against doctors, the legal authorities who do not have sufficient medical knowledge will take the help of the physicians to provide them with sufficient material and advice so as to sue the erring doctor or to protect the medical fraternity from frivolous complaints.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Rajarajeshwari Medical College and Hospital, Kambipura, Bangalore, 560074 India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Naveen
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, Rajarajeshwari Medical College and Hospital, Kambipura, Bangalore, 560074 India.
authors.forename: M V Pradeep
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Kumar
keywords: Expert opinion; Medicolegal report; Section 45 IEA