PROMEDE produces a Decalogue for the medical experts that will increase efficiency and guarantee your results.

-The expert must be a professional limited to analyze claims that specialty or area of medicine that dominate and make reports basing their judgement on the objectivity and scientific rigor

-this Decalogue is convenient, since all the basic rules are thus reflected in a regulation ” accessible and easy to remember and which serve as orientation to the experts who have no experience

– if they follow these premises, the work of the medical experts will be more effective, and customers will have the guarantee that the expert report that request will contain the necessary to understand the case and will always respond to the truth

-the Decalogue of the medical expert does nothing but serve an important work to as the expert medical serve increasingly better targeted and that its prestige increases proportionally to the quality and the reliability of their results

Madrid, 2013-February in order to synthesize values and guidelines that should guide the actions of the medical experts, professionals of the medicine and the company (PROMEDE) has drawn up a Decalogue to unify criteria and thus making the reports best ever. Some standards that, as explained by Dr. Luis Bernaldo, medical director of health professional liability of PROMEDE Area, have drafted on the basis of in the experience of the experts of this company and common sense ”.

In this sense, the Decalogue States that the expert must be a professional limited to analyze claims that specialty or area of medicine that dominate and make reports basing their judgement on the objectivity and scientific rigor, so you will need to follow the following premises:

1. Your report will be the essential extension; too extensive report tires reads whom and the too short is poor.

2. Your report will be a clear statement of the facts, with those reasonings which prove the correctness or incorrectness of the medical act which is valued. You will avoid the temptation to write a treaty doctor or an exercise in erudition.

3 You include in your report only the data necessary for the understanding of the case. You explicarás the report so all; to understand don’t forget that he who reads it does not always meet scientific language. Not bored.

4. You will complete the report based solely on the documentation that you provide, without let go by intuition or unfounded beliefs.

5 You will keep you fair at any price. You do not alteraras or ocultarás data that can alter the conclusions.

6. You analyze the case taking into account the situation which developed the medical action subject to controversy, not let yourself be influenced by the further development of the facts.

7 You will avoid at all costs the value judgments about any of the parties and personal opinions about the legal aspects of the case.

8. Your conclusion, either favorable or unfavorable, it will always be clear and will make reference to the Lex artis ad hoc.

9 Ratificarás your report without a doubt, because doubt ratification implies doubt of your own report.

10. In the ratification, you act with calm and patience, dutifully answering all the clarifications that they require the parties to the dispute and the judge, which are the end recipients of your report.

Dr. Bernaldo believes that this Decalogue is convenient, since thus all the basic rules are embodied in a ‘ regulation ’ accessible and easy to remember and that serve as orientation for the experts who do not have experience ”. Our intention is, above all, contribute to new experts to find a guide so its work step into the right direction ”, adds.

In his opinion, these premises benefit both PROMEDE professionals and their clients: if these rules are followed, the work of medical experts will be more effective, and customers will have the guarantee that the expert report that request will contain the necessary to understand the case and will always respond to the truth, in such a way that pisarán a firm ground in the design and development of their legal strategies ”.

The functions of the medical assessor

The medical expert is always an auxiliary of Justice and, therefore, its function is the help understand the medical action which is put in question and decide whether it was or not adequate rules of correct medical proceeding (Lex Artis). For this reason, in addition to following the new Decalogue, the good medical assessor is characterized by comply with several conditions. The first of these is the knowledge of the medical aspects of the scope of the action being analyzed ”, said Dr. Bernaldo, and adds that medicine advances and that, therefore, the expert must be specialist active in the matter concerning the case ”.

Also it is of great importance the display capacity make the professional report: it should be a document understandable by anyone other than medicine and that allows you to clarify any questions that may arise to the judge and the parties in the Act of ratification ”.

Finally, their work should be governed by fairness, required by law and by ethics, that takes you to analyze the case entrusted to him without being influenced by anything external documentation that provides you and your expertise on the subject ”, declares Dr. Bernaldo.

The medical director of the health professional responsible for PROMEDE Area concluded stressing that the Decalogue of the medical expert else that serve as important as the medical expert work to serve increasingly better targeted and their prestige to increase proportionally to the quality and the reliability of their results is not intended to ”.

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PROMEDE is an expert company that performs medical assessments at the national level, both in health professional liability claims and assessment of damage suffered as a result of accidents. Their reports, made by specialists in Active of any area, ensure a solid scientific basis and a legal orientation to the peculiarities of each case.