A senior clinical faculty member at Harvard Medical School, Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D., is active in patient care in medical, psychiatric and judicial education nationally. He is qualified in both state and federal courts and is nationally recognized as a distinguished impartial, clinical, ethical and forensic expert to P/D attorneys and institutions. Individual and multispecialty team consultations available.
- Informed Consent & Malpractice
- Employment Litigation: ADA, Disability, Sexual Misconduct Discrimination, Worker's Compensation
- Emotional & Physical Damages: Conscious Pain & Suffering, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Neuropsychiatry & Pain Imaging
- Standards For Experts
- Product Liability: Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals, Toxic Tort
- Criminal Justice & Public Safety: Diminished Capacity, Drug Addiction, Competency to Confess, Death Penalty Mitigation, Workplace Safety
- Family & Custody Issues
- Testamentary & Contractual Capacity
- Professional & Organizational Ethics: Patient Care, Managed Care, Privacy
- Psychoanalysis & Cultural Perspectives
By: Harold Bursztajn, MD and Thomas G. Gutheil, MD
Recent Supreme Court decisions emphasize the need to regulate the admissibility of expert testimony by means of standards that require opinions going beyond ipse dixit; that is, that are based on more than the fact that the expert "said it him/herself
