Forensic medical opinions serve the appropriate classification of a crime against health. Violence, a multifaceted phenomenon, requires forensic medical examination in the case of causing damage to health. Due to the effects caused by the perpetrator, the damage to health is divided into severe, medium, and light. This study analyzed 7689 incidents of violence from 2015–2020, taking place in the area subordinate to the Provincial Police Headquarters in Poznań, based on anonymized documentation of forensic medical examinations performed at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Poznań at the request of the Police and privately. The analysis took into account: units ordering the test, type of exposure, medical help, sex and age of the victim, places of the incident, classification and localization of injury, manner of impact, attitude of the perpetrator to the victim, profession of the victim, gender of the perpetrator, and remarks. In Poland, statistics on violence victims are underestimated, resulting from the low reporting of crimes committed to law enforcement authorities. There is a need for programs to educate the perpetrator of violence on methods of conflict resolution and programs to prevent violence, covering events taking place in public spaces.

In order to identify the molecular pathways governing melanoma and track its progression, the next-generation sequencing (NGS) approach and targeted sequencing of cancer genes were employed. The primary tumor, as well as metastatic tissue, of an 84-year-old patient diagnosed with vulvar melanoma (VM), were investigated. The primary tumor specimen showed multiple somatic mutations in TP53 gene, suggesting its major contribution to melanoma origin. The metastatic sample showed additional alterations, including other melanoma-related genes. Clinical relevancy is postulated to juxtamembrane region instability of KIT gene (c-KIT). We did not identify BRAF or NRAS alterations, which are typical for the most common melanoma pathway–MAPK cascade. However, it should be noted that this is the first report evidencing PDGFRA in melanoma, although its role in triggering VM needs to be further elucidated.

At the turn of 2005 and 2006, Polish emergency medical service underwent profound changes. Emergency medical service teams (EMS) were divided into P-type, which included only paramedics, and S-type, which consisted of paramedics and a physician (Statue from 8th September 2006 about State Medical Rescue). This study aimed to determine which elements of the medical rescue system in Poland most often occurred, what kind of errors they were, and how often they resulted in a patient's death. This article analyzed 147 opinions issued by the Forensic Medicine Department at Poznań University of Medical Sciences in 2005-2015 that concerned medical errors in emergency medicine commissioned by judicial authorities from all over Poland. The study excluded opinions on the areas covered by the jurisdiction of the Appellate Prosecutor's Office in Poznań and the District Prosecutor's Office in Ostrów Wlkp., which is about 85% of the country's territory. The results of the analyses identified the Hospital Emergency Departments as the place where the most significant number of errors of all types had been committed, which were not particularly surprising. The results concerning mistakes made by the EMS teams seemed much more significant. They showed that errors in the P-type ambulances (i.e., without a doctor in the rescue team) had occurred much more often, including those resulting in the patient's death. It can therefore be concluded that the higher level of preparation of the emergency medical team members translates into a higher level of patient safety. However, some scientific reports indicate that this does not have to be the case. The most significant limitation of this study lies in the source of the analyzed data. Opinions of the Department of Forensic Medicine in Poznań in cases concerning errors in emergency medicine reflect only a tiny percentage of medical errors.

PTMSIK ds. formalnych i medycznych aspektów stwierdzania zgonu opracował zestaw algorytmów postępowania dla osób stwierdzających zgon w warunkach pozaszpitalnych. Nadrzędnym celem niniejszego opracowania jest uporządkowanie oraz ujednolicenie postępowania w sytuacjach związanych ze stwierdzaniem zgonu poza podmiotami leczniczymi, z uwzględnieniem zarówno aspektów medycznych, jak i obowiązujących regulacji prawnych.

Artykuł jest próbą ponownego spojrzenia na sprawę zabójstwa śp. księdza Stanisława Streicha, dokonanego przez Wawrzyńca Nowaka 27 lutego 1938 r. Weryfikując wspomnienia świadków zdarzenia, a także zapoznawszy się z treścią ówczesnych relacji prasowych, autorzy zestawili zebrane informacje z treścią protokołu sekcyjnego sporządzonego przez doktora Stanisława Łagunę, w celu potwierdzenia ustalonych dotychczas faktów w sprawie popełnionej zbrodni. Dodatkowym celem było natomiast interdyscyplinarne podejście w formie połączenia pracy hi204 Łukasz Szudarski, Dagmara Skowrońska, Janusz Kołowski, Bartosz Burchardt storyka i medyków, aby określić szczegółowo okoliczności śmierci kapłana i podjąć się próby zidentyfikowania rodzaju broni, której sprawca użył do popełnienia przestępstwa. Jednocześnie autorzy tekstu postanowili zweryfikować możliwość przypisania Wawrzyńcowi Nowakowi przynależności do organizacji o charakterze komunistycznym, w świetle informacji zawartych w dostępnych obecnie materiałach źródłowych. The murder of father Stanisław Streich and its depiction in the light of his autopsy report The article aims at re-examining the murder of father Stanisław Streich by Wawrzyniec Nowak on February 27, 1938. By verifying the accounts of witnesses to this event and reading the contemporary news coverage, the authors compared the collected information with the autopsy report by the physician Stanisław Łaguna, in order to confirm the facts regarding the crime. An additional objective was to adopt an interdisciplinary approach that would combine the work of historians and physicians to determine the circumstances of the priest’s death in detail, and to attempt to identify the type of weapon the perpetrator used to commit this crime. At the same time, the authors tried to verify whether it is possible to identify Wawrzyniec Nowak as a member of a communist organization, based on information included in the source materials that are now available.