Objectives of the Department of Forensic Medicine

Examination and assesment of

• Cases of death, especially on the question of third-party involvment
• Physical injury in the living
• Medical malpractice
• Intoxication, expecially the effect of alcohol, addictive drugs and medication
• Questions of kinship
• biological traces, DNA, and
• processing of medical/legal questions
  
  

Forensic medicine is a medical-forensic science which serves the people and the truth. Forensic doctors are lawyers of victims, whether living or dead.

What is crucially important are the tasks of the generally affidavit and juridical certified experts in court with an oral presentation and an understandable explanation of test results.