Code of Medical Ethics and Deontology

_76 CODE OF MEDICAL DEONTOLOGY - Article 76.4 A medical expert must reveal only the medical information strictly necessary to achieve the purpose of the requested medical-legal expertise. Article 76.5 A doctor must not agree to provide medical expertise for that which they do not have the necessary professional training. If forced to do so, they will be entitled to accept the objection of science to reject its practice. Article 76.6 An expert doctor must not reject without just cause, in general, the provision of expert evidence when they voluntarily requested their registration in the list of experts of the Local Medical Association. Article 76.7 The position of expert witness is incompatible with being or having been an attending physician of the person involved, taking into account the loyalty that the doctor owes to his patients and the impartiality that any expert act must have. Article 76.8 It is contrary to Medical Ethics for an attending doctor to offer themselves as an expert witness for their own patients. If forced to do so, they must limit themselves to transferring the known facts on the condition for which he has been summoned.

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