Referring to both medicine and the law.
To medicine and law, especially to topics such as malpractice, patient consent for operations, and patient information.
Relating to medical jurisprudence or forensic medicine.
“Medicolegal” refers to the intersection of medicine and law. Experts in this field address issues such as laws related to medical negligence or malpractice damages; evidence of injury severity in civil cases; paternity testing; assessing the mental competence of individuals making wills; and regulations concerning the mentally ill.
Medicolegal topics also encompass a person’s right to die, the need for informed consent for surgeries, legal considerations of artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, sterilization, and surrogacy, as well as a patient’s right to privacy about their medical condition.