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A medical expert is a physician who has the requisite clinical experience and academic achievement to form an objective medical opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty. A forensic psychiatrist is a physician who integrates clinical experience, knowledge of medicine, mental health, and the neurosciences to form an independent, objective opinion. Relevant data are gathered and analyzed as part of a process of alternative hypothesis testing to formulate an expert medical/psychiatric opinion. This e
Dr. Bursztajn continues to have an active clinical practice and consults as a forensic psychiatric expert and teaches nationally both as an individual and as a distinguished multispecialty team. He has had a long standing special interest in medical and psychiatric diagnosis. His publications analyzing clinical and forensic neuropsychiatric diagnosis and misdiagnosis range from the highly acclaimed book Medical Choices, Medical Chances through numerous peer reviewed publications to chapters in current stand
Review and analysis, consultation, neuropsychiatric examinations and expert opinion formulation in medical and mental health malpractice, informed consent, product liability, risk management and testamentary capacity cases are a longstanding area of special interest. Other areas of special interest include psychiatric diagnosis, suicide prevention, sexual boundary violation claim evaluations, boundary training, detection of malingering, pain impairment evaluations, custody, testamentary capacity, medication