[The role of the physician in expert testimony leading to an arrest]

The authors have offered several problems related to a topic of medical professional activities of physicians being in contact with the administration of justice. There are presented opinions based on existent regulations and experiences associated with juridical expert activities of the authors. These opinions are about two problems that, according to obtained data, are made of controversies which stand between first-aid or ambulance doctors and law officers. The first problem deals with differences of opinion on obligations of physicians to examine drunk patients and to meet the requirements to put them into a sober room or--if there are any for a temporary stay into a prison. There has been also stated an opinion that this activity of physicians is included in a normal range of their professional duties. The second matter is concerned with the correctness of physicians' proceedings dealing with individuals arrested by militia and giving medical evidences that faces a problem whether stay in prison can or cannot constitute a threat for their life or health. It's been also founded that--in those cases--a physician has to be called a medicolegal opinion. The professional obligations of physicians still don't include this function and therefore it has to be granted separately.