Forensic psychiatry, like other areas of medicine, is working to establish standards of practice as the subspecialty expands. There are a growing number of experts who routinely videotape or audiotape their evaluations. Some of them have proposed that videotaping should be the standard of practice for forensic evaluations. The purposes of the AAPL Task Force on Videotaping Forensic Interviews a...

OBJECTIVE To compare the attitudes and practice of Iowa obstetricians (OBs) and family physicians (FPs) regarding patients' desires to videotape obstetric procedures. DESIGN All Iowa OBs (172) and FPs (438) who practice obstetrics received a questionnaire exploring their attitudes and practice patterns regarding videotaping obstetric procedures. Data were analyzed using chi 2, odds ratios wit...