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“Our role is to act as an interface between the medical world and the judiciary. We transform medical data into data that can be used by the courts. Being a forensic pathologist means explaining scientific facts in a simple, but not simplistic, way because the legal world needs certainty,” begins Dr. Bègue, head of the forensic medicine department at Dijon University Hospital. “We should not try to answer all the questions, sometimes our role is to introduce doubt into a procedure. We are not here to add up the clues, that is the role of the investigators. We can simply say whether what is observed fits the story that is being told. »
Prudence, rigor, but also humanity, are the key words…
