Emedinews:Insights on Medicolegal Issues:Doctor is a professional of Medical science with neutrality and impartiality

• When a doctor appears as medical witness in the court of law, he/she must strive to achieve respect, good medical understanding and the most important thing is credibility before the honorable judge as well legal counsel of both sides.
• Doctor must give the appearance of being independent medical witnesses of truth based on medical science with neutrality, impartiality and authentic characteristics. Vagueness and theory has no place in legal medicine.
• Vagueness and theory have no place in legal medicine hence a medical witness, should remain a man of science; you have no victim to avenge, no guilty person to convict and no innocent person to save.
• A doctor must bear testimony within the limits of medical/allied science". The attitude of a medical/clinician/scientific witness should be the same whether he is called by the defense or prosecution. The doctor really testifies neither for nor against the prosecution or the defense. The doctor’s expertise is in the application of science to a legal controversy and the proper interpretation of scientific findings.
• A doctor’s sole obligation is to present the truth as he sees it, adding nothing, withholding nothing and distorting nothing mean revealing whole truth.
• A doctor should not concern himself with the previous character of the accused or with other evidence in the case.
• A doctor should not be influenced in any way by emotional consideration, such as sympathy or antipathy. The doctor must be honest, the honesty gives the confidence with enlightened conscience and the success in the court of law depends upon your confidence.
• Honest perusal of medical science, confidence and medical ethics are tripods of this noble medical professional.