Shulman in Denial, Doctors Say
Newsday, Friday, April 16, 1999
Excerpt:
Many courts … agree that a treating psychiatrist cannot be said to have
the requisite objectivity, given the subjective nature of treatment, to offer
testimony," said Dr. Harold Bursztajn, co-director of Harvard Medical School's
Program in Psychiatry and the Law. "Moreover, for a treating psychiatrist
to offer such testimony over the now-imprisoned ex-patient's objections is a
clear violation of the Hippocratic Oath, the Nuremberg Code regarding duties
to captive patients" and several ethics codes.
