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Dear Doctor Anil,
I am a expatriate pathologist working in Fiji for 6 years now. I am a Doctor of Medicine,1985, graduating in University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Phils. I had my training in Anatomic
Pathology, 1992 and certified by the Phil. Board of Pathologists. I am also a member of the International Academy of Pathologists, Australasian Division. I just found you while browsing
through the internet and I find your website very interesting. I hope to be able to contribute some articles of note someday. I would like to inquire from you whether you have any institution
which provides formal training in Forensic Pathology. My work as a pathologist here in Fiji involves about 60% medicolegal cases and I have learned through experience. Now, I would like
to undergo a formal training as I have found Forensic Pathology a very useful and interesting field. I will be going to Singapore for a 6 months training in Forensic Pathology at ISFM. After
which, I would like to pursue the field of forensics further, hence my inquiry. I would appreciate it very much if we can communicate regularly.
Thank you very much. Hello, Dr. Aggrawal,
Dear Dr. Aggrawal,
Dear Dr. Anil Aggrawal
Thank you very much for your excellent info on you website.
I will add a link from my page to yours.
Dr. Aggrawal
Dear Dr. Aggrawal,
(Barbed wire is just a curiosity. My name, address, aims and scope of the journal can be found by clicking here, which happens to be the home page of the journal too. The name and address of the person to whom books for review should be sent appears at the bottom of our review page itself. To know why our journal is named like this, kindly visit our FAQ section.
-Anil Aggrawal)
Dr. Aggrawal
(Thanks Jay. We feel honored. You may want to send us papers along with colour pictures. Your books would have us believe there is never a dearth of good pictures with you. -Anil Aggrawal)
Dear Professor Aggrawal,
I would be happy to send a paper when I have finished preparing one. What are the guidelines to follow? Are you looking for research or descriptive
papers?
(Guidelines have been given in the journal. Any way you can click here for the guidelines. Both types of papers are accepted in this journal. -Anil Aggrawal)
Dear Professor Aggrawal,
Dear Anil,
I checked out your thesis site and am pleased to see your protégé's thesis there. Do you mind if I give some critique on it?
On the face of it, the study though highlighting ISS, does little to
elaborate on the current ISS score (i.e. the 1980 score and the chart), and
how to use it! I used it and presented the paper in front of Elaine
Petricelli, one of the founder's of the score, at the 5th World Congress of
Injury Prevention & Control from 5th to 8th March at the India Habitat
Center, Lodhi Road (the one for which I had come to Delhi for) and was told
that even that was flawed and had been revised!
As far as the data of injuries are concerned, traumatologists all over the
world would like to see some correlation in a work from a country on how a
particular pattern of trauma correlates with a particular road user as well
as lessons one learns in interventive strategies arising from the work! What
has Akash to say about pattern of injuries in different cases of road users?
He could at least comment on whether which organs he expects from his study,
to be affected vis-à-vis primary impact, secondary impact and secondary and
tertiary injuries!! Could he, applying the old ISS predict whether injuries
were not clinically noted or ignored, because as per the low clinical score
on the basis of clinical notes, the prognosis should have been good, not
fatal. Has he noted any case where the clinical and P.M. scores were low and
the patient died of complications acquired at the hospital? As far as a
thesis/dissertation is concerned, the tables and graphs make the study, and
one can see none of it there in the dissertation! (Sorry, I could not upload them earlier as I was so rushed up, and later the thing slipped up from my mind. Anyway you are right, and they are there now. -Anil Aggrawal)
In the Medicine Science and Law short paper, AK Sharma and I have tried to
address these issues within the limited scope of our vast study. We had also
tried to do the same with Ghosh's paper, but it was so vast a study that in
the end we were doing his finishing of the thesis and its publication, as
Ghosh had cracked up and given up, saying that he could not submit it in
time! Dr Reddy, Dabas, and I pooled in during the last 3 days, and so all
these finer points had to be abandoned!
I went through Zeno Geradt's and Jurrien Bijhold's paper and Ifeoma Anochie's
paper from Nigeria. The former paper is a fascinating paper and a laudable
one, while the Nigerian paper gives a somewhat misleading connotation from
the title from the nature of the term "Non Accidental" as I thought this
sounded interesting as we have done some such cases of Non accidental
injuries from child abuse! This actually turned out to be so called injuries
as local treatment remedies for convulsions practiced in Nigeria. Nevertheless, it is a very good paper and an eye opener, with some very nice
photographs! They have come out quite well! Both papers are excellent
papers,
Well again congrats for an excellent presentation and compilation making it
a journal worth quoting.
Dear Professor Aggrawal
Dear Anil,
Dear Prof. Aggrawal
Dr. Aggrawal,
I had the pleasure of visiting your website today and wanted to let you know about our own forensic science e-zine, which has been in production since November
1996, www.forensicpanel.com.
Your posted journals are quite impressive.
Dear Dr. Aggrawal,
Dear Dr. Anil Aggrawal
Hello Professor Aggrawal,
(Sure! You may even want to tell us of forensic research going on in your region in the form of papers, articles, reviews etc. -Anil Aggrawal)
Dear Professor,
From: Dr. Roel Cayari, Fiji Islands (Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000)
Kind regards,
Dr. Roel B. Cayari
Consultant Pathologist
Colonial War Memorial Hospita
Suva, Fiji Islands
tel.no. 679-214-573
fax no. 679-305-810
From: Dr. Narinder Aggarwal, New Delhi, India (Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000)
I have gone through your paper and found it very useful.
Dr. Narinder Aggrawal,
Reader, Department of Forensic Medicine,
University College of Medical Sciences,
New Delhi, India
From: Dianne McCutcheon, US (Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000)
Mr. Kotzin asked me to reply to your question regarding NLM's purchase order from Serial Records Section for your journal. Our order is for the CD-ROM
version of the journal which according to your web site is now available, with many more additional features. We wish to have the CD-ROM for our library
collection.
Can you supply us your journal in the CD-ROM version? Please let us know if there is a charge for the CD-ROM.
Thank you.
Dianne McCutcheon
Head, Serial Records
National Library of Medicine
US
From: Dr. Friedrich Lux, Austria (Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000)
Best regards
Dr. Friedrich Lux
TIRE GUIDES INTERNATIONAL
Franz Grubergasse 22
A-2700 Wr. Neustadt, Austria
Phone & Fax: +43-2622-21993
Tire Guides International Website
From: John Lavender, US, (Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000)
Thank you for your reviews of
our publications. Our representative in India
is Mr R Seshadri whom you may contact at itpsesha@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in if
you would like to review other publications.
John Lavender
CRC Press LLC
From: Paul Wehn, US, (Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000)
Thanks for your review of John Trestrail's book on Criminal Poisoning. I checked out the site and the review. I was curious about how
you got the book, but then discovered that John is on your editorial board!
The site is very nice, although I have a few suggestions for improving it.
Why the barbed wire? Seems strange. I had trouble finding your name and
address on the site. It should be immediately apparent. You say nothing
about who should be sent books for possible review. Also, there is no aims
and scope statement, which is something that every journal worth its salt
should have. About the name of the journal, I would think that Journal of
Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of Internet Journal of. . . would have
more credibility with Medline and others. Just some thoughts. We do have a
book by Margaret Stark called A Physician's Guide to Clinical Forensic
Medicine. Would you like to review it?
Yours sincerely,
Paul Wehn
The Humana Press Inc
999 Riverview Dr, Ste 208
Totowa, NJ 07512
Tel(973)256-1699 ext.26
Fax(973)256-8341
From: Jay Dix, US, (Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000)
I went to your web site and found it interesting. Let me know how you would like me to contribute.
Jay Dix
From: Lori Bisbey (Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000)
Best,
Bisbey
From: Nick Fallon (Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000)
I have today asked our Marketing Manager to add you to the book review copy list
for all Academic Press forensic science books. I hope that you will enjoy
reviewing these - and look forward to reading the reviews in the on-line
journal.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries. In the meantime,
you may wish to visit our homepage at the URL given below.
With best wishes
Nick Fallon
Senior Editor - AP Forensics
Academic Press
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From: Dr. George Paul, Malaysia (Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000)
Regards,
George Paul, Lecturer, Forensic Pathology,
Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya,
Lembah Pantai 50603, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
PH: 603-7502138 (O)
603-7540067 (R)
Fax:603-7556845
From: Kate Bowker, (Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 )
Thank you so much for reviewing our title: Faulks Basic Forensic Psychiatry.
We do appreciate this, and I am copying this email to the relevant editor
who will be delighted to read the review.
Many thanks again for taking the time to review Basic Forensic Psychiatry.
Please let me know if I can be of further assistance in the future.
Best regards
Kate
Blackwell Science Publshers
From: Phrabhakaran a/l K N Nambiar, Malaysia, (Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000)
I will try to send a paper for the journal as it is a brillant idea. It is nice to know that you have really expanded in the Intenet. Anil Aggrawal is going to be popular like Reddy's forensic section.
With best regards,
Phrabha
Malaysia
From: Prof. Giusto GIUSTI, Italy, (Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000)
Best compliments for your electronic journal and the style. The necessity of a journal like this looks obvious after your beginning. I will send papers when
possible, and in a next mail propose a co-operation on skeletal age.
Prof. Giusto GIUSTI,
Chair of Legal Medicine,
Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Italy
From: James W. Burnes (Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000)
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From: Dr. Ronald Wright, US (Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000)
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From: Greg Laskowski, US (Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000)
Your site is a very worthy effort at informing both the forensic community
and the public in issues regarding forensic medicine and toxicology. For
my part, I am more interested in criminalsitics and the use of new
technology in crime scene investigation. Perhaps as your interent journal
grows, it will include these topics as well. Keep up the good work. I am
always interested in seeing how other parts of the world are grappling with
forensic issues.
All the best!
Gregory E. Laskowski
Supervising Criminalist
Kern County District Attorney
Forensic Science Division
office phone: (661) 868-5659
From: Dr. Peter Kovac, Slovakia (Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000)
After visiting the pages of the Internet Journal of Forensic
Medicine I think your idea is an appropriate solution for the general
situation with publications in the field of forensic medicine. I am not
familiar with the situation in your country, but in our region (Slovakia and
the Czech republic) there is only single journal dealing with pathology and
forensic medicine - Cesko-Sloveska patologie a soudni lekarstvi, indexed in
MEDLINE/Index medicus, EMBASE, BILOGICAL ABSTRACTS and BIBLIOGRAPHIA MEDICA
CECHOSLOVACA. Appearing 4 times a year, space for publication is limited.
Problem with the rest of the world is financial - our institute has only
limited means provided by university therefore we are not in the position to
get on the hottest news. Forensic medicine is in the majority of countries
some kind of unwanted Cinderella.
Now couple of my ideas to improve the Journal: based on my walk-through, I have
noticed the journal is optimized for resolution 1600 x 1200 pixels. Nowadays,
in my opinion, the most common resolution used on internet is 800x600, only
minority of sites use resolution 1024x768. The other idea is to get some
"good" URL for the journal. Free web hosting is good for the start, but it
looks like the Journal is to become big success. Therefore one should think
of own domain for the Journal.
I am of course interested in publishing in the journal - I can offer some
2 - 3 interesting contributions. I've autopsied a case where punctured injury
to the right ventricle was not diagnosed and the patient survived 4 days - I
think this would a good case report. One of my favorite topics is medical
legislation - therefore your comparative focused on autopsy regulations and
transplantations sound very interesting for me. I could be interesting to
publish such a comparative even in the paper based journals - I thing I
could get it to the Cesko-Sloveska patologie a soudni lekarstvi with almost
no problem. Would you be interested in the co-operation on this field ? The
next contribution could be dedicated to pre- and post- gradual education of
the forensic medicine and the organization of the medico-legal service in
the Slovak republic. With our colleagues we can provide long - term follow
up of the Slovak drug scene after the fall of the iron curtain. I've
informed some of my colleagues and especially Dr. Fiala, PhD. (chairman of
the Slovak Society of Forensic Medicine). He would be interested in publishing some
of his papers. He got his PhD for the work in the field of forensic
fetology - and the problem of establishing the age of the embryo and fetus
is of great forensic importance in most countries (abortion legislative etc.)
Dr. Peter Kovac
Institute of Forensic Medicine
Comenius University
Bratislava, Sasinkova 4
81103 Slovakia
From: Dr Rene Lopez Perez, Chile (Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000)
From Chile I send you a letter.
I am a forensic physician and I work at medical legal service of santiago
De chile (too far).
Would you like to have some contact with South America?
Dr Rene Lopez Perez
Chile
From: Dr. Hugo Rodriguez, Uruguay (Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000)
I want to congratulate you for the excellent quality of your electronic
publication. I am medical doctor, specialized in Forensic Medicine. Now, I am working
for the Justice as Forensic Examiner. I was also Associate Professor of
Forensic Medicine at the Medical School (Facultad de Medicina), Uruguay
University, at Montevideo, Uruguay, and I was recently lecturer, as Invited
Professor of the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru).
Presently, I am General Secretary of the Ibero-American Society of Medical Law and I also integrate the board of the Asociación
Latinoamericana de Medicina Legal y Deontología Médica (Latin American
Society of Forensic Medicine and Medical Deontology).
I integrate, as editor, the staff of the Revista Española de Medicina Legal
(Spanish Journal of Forensic Medicine) and The Red
Telemática Latinoamericana de Medicina Legal, Bioética y Derecho Médico
(Latin American Telematic Web of Legal Medicine, Bioethic and Medical Law.
I have published several papers, in Spanish, mainly about the Children
Forensic Medicine (battered child syndrome, sexual abuse and sudden infant
death) and on Medical Law.
Best Regards,
Hugo Rodriguez
Uruguay
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