Features of special knowledge use in the iatrogenic crimes investigation

The relevance of the study is due to the importance of using knowledgeable persons in the iatrogenic crimes disclosure and investigation. The problems of investigating these crimes are determined by the difficulty of identifying offenses committed by medical professionals in their diagnostic, therapeutic, preventive, and rehabilitation activities. The purpose is to consider the specifics of the specialists and experts use in the investigation of crimes committed in the medical care provision. The tasks’ implementation is achieved using the laws of dialectics, formal logic and the use of general scientific and private scientific research methods. It is concluded that the peculiarity of the iatrogenic crimes investigation is due to the activities specifics of medical workers in providing assistance, as well as the processes occurring in the patient’s body. The study of these issues requires the persons assistance with special knowledge in this field. The reliability of specialists’ and experts’ conclusions allows the subject of the investigation not only to correctly carry out the legal qualification of what he did at the initial stage of the investigation, but also to develop a strategy for further work on the criminal case. The use features of knowledgeable persons at different stages of the iatrogenic crimes investigation are considered. At the same time, special attention is paid to the prescribing and organizing examinations problems of the medical care quality, and commission forensic medical examinations, which in practice cause difficulties in their application by the investigation subjects.