Only about 25% of U.S. hospitals have a forensic nurse on staff, according to the International Association of Forensic Nurses.

Eve Rittenberg ([email protected]) is a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, Massachusetts. She ...

If an adult is sexually assaulted in the District, one group of specially trained nurses is called upon to perform a forensic exam should the survivor wish to receive one. And sexual assault occurs ...

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