“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 justice. 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 indices; That’s the role of investigators. We can simply say whether what is observed fits the story that is being told. »
How to cope with pain and sometimes horror?
Prudence, rigor, but also humanity are the key words at the Forensic Institute (IML). A place where death and life constantly coexist. “What remains in the collective imagination, in the eyes of the public, is the image of the TV series of the doctor…
