From Inquest to Insight

From inquest to insight.

BACKGROUND In March 1995, The Chief Medical Examiner, Province of Manitoba, ordered an inquest into the deaths of 12 children who died in 1994 while undergoing or shortly after having undergone cardiac surgery at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The inquest spanned over five years, and resulted in almost 50,000 pages of transcript, including the testimony of more than 80 wi...

The coroner's inquest.

(a) He can make no effective ruling as to the steps any doctor should take in relation to any patient before death—even where that death, when it occurs, will fall within the coroner's jurisdiction; (b) He may indicate—as anyone else may—the type of deaths which he wishes to be reported to him—for example all deaths within 24 h of any operation, but there is no legal requirement upon anyone to ...

Napoleon's death. An inquest

From Insight to Intervention

Articles in this issue of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice address all three stages in the continuum of discovery, development, and implementation of evidence-based interventions. Two articles review basic research that is providing the foundation for new behavioral treatments and medications. One, by Dr. Thomas Gould, describes the two-stage process of addiction, knowledge of which can il...

Duration of death investigations that proceed to inquest in Australia

BACKGROUND Recent government inquiries in several countries have identified the length of time it takes coroners to investigate deaths due to injury and other unnatural causes as a major problem. Delays undermine the integrity of vital statistics and adversely affect the deceased's family and others with interests in coroners' findings. Little is publicly known about the extent, nature and caus...