Open AccessTele-evidence: A videoconferencing tool as a viable alternative to physical appearance of doctors for the judicial summons
Author(s) -
Safani Bari,
Pankaj Arora,
Gupta Ak,
Manvi Singh,
AK Aggarwal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/jpgm.jpgm_243_17
Subject(s) - summons , medicine , videoconferencing , likert scale , telemedicine , second opinion , medical emergency , medical education , law , multimedia , health care , psychology , developmental psychology , political science , computer science , pathology
The role of physicians often extends beyond provision of direct patient care and includes appearance in courts as professional or expert witnesses to give their testimony in various legal cases. This often consumes precious time and resources of the doctors and the hospitals. This study was taken up to evaluate the present system of the physical appearance of the doctors to various courts and compare it with the videoconferencing mode of giving testimony (tele-evidence).