Controverted Use Of Forensic Telemedicine In Times Of Social Isolation By The Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

This article aims to present some logical-inductive reflections based on the norms of the forensic sciences, especially the judicial forensic medicine related to the granting of social security benefits due to disability in times of social isolation by pandemic of COVID-19. The possibility of using the forensic telemedicine institute is analyzed, especially in psychiatry, in the light of the current normative commands and of the organs and authorities linked to the Judiciary as opposed to the guidelines of the Federal Council of Medicine. It started from the understanding of forensic medicine as a means of proof and therefore, with matters regulated primarily by Civil Procedural Law and the Federal Constitution. In the results obtained, it was concluded that it is legal and ethical, in addition to being technically possible in various cases, the use of forensic telemedicine in situations that impose barriers that hinder access to the face-to-face examination, being the responsibility of the medical expert and the examining the option to perform forensic telemedicine.