"The policeman overwhelms the violence" and the emergency doctor who testifies the testimony



New York City Police shoots a moving cyclist and shoots it with movie shooting and it is released on the InternetIn the United States, excessive violence by the police is often talked about. About this, it became clear that there are many doctors who think that 'police officer is overkill' from the questionnaire to the doctor on duty working in the emergency ward.

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Medical journal published in January next yearEmergency Medicine JournalAnswered a questionnaire to 315 emergency physicians randomly extracted from an emergency medical doctor working in an American hospital, 99.8% almost all corresponded that public authority is thought to exercise excessive violence, the whole 65.3% of the respondents came up with 2 or more people in a year that corresponded to such case.

Also, as for the contents of treatment, the trauma caused by striking with hands and feet was the most frequent, and the next was that there were many scratches when handcuffs were tightened.

Furthermore, 93.7% of the respondents said that they did not receive training or education on what to do in case of excessive violence caused by such public authority, so what appears as a figure is It may be a corner of the iceberg. 47.9% believe that legal obligation to report on such case should be obliged.

Dr. Jared Strote of the University of Washington, who studied, concludes that "medical institutions must cooperate in formulating guidelines with a problem awareness of such complicated circumstances."

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