Psychology Expert Witness Evaluates PTSD in Metalworker

Case Overview

This case takes place in New York and involves a man who suffered extensive injuries when using a machine to stamp parts from sheet metal. The machine was used to produce stamped parts for aircraft. As a part of the machine’s normal operation, the stamping die would press down on the metal with hundreds of pounds of force. At some point, the man had to manipulate the metal that was in the process of being stamped. At some point, the press came down on the man’s hand, severing multiple fingers. He claims he has suffered PTSD as a result of this event and retains an industrial psychology expert.

Questions to the Forensic expert and their responses

Do you have extensive experience treating patients who suffer from PTSD?

I am a board-certified psychiatrist with added qualifications in psychosomatic psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. I primarily work in hospital setting with level 1 trauma service, yielding consultations to evaluate for PTSD. I evaluate over 1500 unique patients yearly in hospital setting.

Are you available to review case and opine whether or not this event can be correlated to PTSD?

While it sounds like a horrible incident, PTSD does require certain elements in addition to the actual trauma - including intrusive symptoms, avoidance symptoms, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, alterations in arousal and reactivity - without this spectrum a trauma does not automatically yield PTSD.

About the expert

This expert has more than 15 years of experience as a full-time psychiatrist, performing consultations on more than 1500 patients a year in his busy clinical practice. Currently this expert is a clinical assistant professor a major medical school and attending psychiatrist at a local area hospital and private practice. This expert is board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. He earned his DO at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, completed residency training in psychiatry at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and fellowship training in psycho-oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Specialties:

Forensic