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Problems of conscience and fact: consulting on medicolegal claims.

The physician is not obliged to act as a consultant in medicolegal cases, but if one does, one should consult for either the defense or the plaintiff. I believe that acting as a consultant is of service to one's medical colleagues and to society as a whole. Moreover, a series of cases substantiates the view that it should be an advantage to physicians if more ophthalmologists of stature would accept this task.

Ethics, Medical