Paragraph 5: Practice of expert medicine.

No one may be both expert doctor and treating doctor for the same patient. A doctor must not accept a mission of expertise in which his own interests are at stake, or those of one of his patients, one of his relatives, one of his friends or a group that usually calls upon his services.

When entrusted with a mission, the medical expert must recuse himself if he considers that the questions put to him are not related to medical technique, to his knowledge, to his possibilities or that they would expose him to contravene the provisions of the present code of deontology.

Before undertaking any expert examination, the medical expert must inform the person he is to examine of his mission and the legal framework in which his opinion is sought.

In drafting his report, the medical expert must only reveal information that is likely to provide an answer to the questions asked. Outside these limits, he must not reveal anything that he may have learnt in the course of this expertise. He must certify that he has carried out his mission personally.