THE MEDICAL ADVISOR AN UNKNOWN MILITANT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54695/dss.57.03.2674Keywords:
Medical advisor, doctor for the injured party, insurance company medical advisor, medical evaluator, judicial expert, bodily harm, medico-legal assessment, proof, adversarial principle, craniocerebral trauma, invisible handicap®.Abstract
Medical evaluator, insurance company medical advisor,
medical advisor (known also as consultant for the injured
party), are three types of doctors who do not provide
treatment but take part in the medicolegal assessment
process in respect of bodily harm. Even though they have
similar training their roles and tasks are very different
and must not be confused. The intervention of the medical advisor is based on two fundamental principles, that
is, on the one hand, the burden of proof incumbent upon
the victim and, on the other, the adversarial principle.
The medical advisor not only helps the injured party to
constitute his personal medical data record but also
advises, assists and defends him in order to obtain a fair
medicolegal assessment. The role of the medical advisor
vis a vis a victim having sustained a craniocerebral trauma is even more indispensable considering the specificity
of the “invisible handicap” that brain injuries cause
