E03: Independent Medical Examinations with Dr Daniel Robin

The IME examiner is not there to treat the person sitting across from them. They're there to document what they see, report the facts, and leave the rest to the courts. The moment that line blurs, independence is gone.

Mr. Daniel Robin is a Melbourne-based orthopaedic surgeon and sub-specialist in complex hip and knee surgery, trained across leading centres in London, Bristol, and Switzerland.

Host Jess Marshall asks the questions every IME practitioner has to answer:

• How do you shift from treating patients to assessing claimants — and why does getting it wrong undermine your entire report?
• What does undressing, walking in, and getting off the examination couch tell you that formal testing never will?
• When subjective complaints and objective findings diverge, what are your ethical obligations?
• How do you assess functional impact when the objective pathology looks minor?
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Mr. Robin's approach is built on factual discipline and clinical observation. He establishes independence from the first sentence of every examination. And his guiding principle for handling credibility gaps:

"It's not my job to figure out what is true. My job is to document the facts as they are presented to me."

Mr. Robin covers the treating-versus-examining mindset, behavioural observation techniques, reporting language that holds up under scrutiny, conflicts of interest in medical negligence cases, causation in degenerative conditions, and why every IME report ultimately exists to serve one purpose - making the court's job easier.

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