Dr. Francois Sestier is a cardiologist, a medico-legal expert, a clinical professor at the University of Montreal and a consultant cardiologist and researcher at the CHUM Research Center. He has served as an expert witness in more than 40 trials, and he is the author of more than 100 published articles. More can be learned about him by visiting http://drsestier.org/.
Medical experts are sometimes seen as mercenaries, selling their opinions for money. This has been favoured by the adversarial judicial system in North America, including Canada, with medical experts on both the sides of the courtroom. Medical experts too often believe firmly that their main duty is to help the requesting party to win their case. Therefore, some of these experts allow themselves to reinvent medicine, to lie or misrepresent the facts in court, to select specific facts, ignoring others in the medical file or to select the literature to help the lawyer to win their case.
