How easy? Please tell us how easy it is to find an expert who will testify that an established standard of care is NOT the standard of care?

Where do you go, what does it cost, in your experience?

Thats because “firm guidelines” dont hold up in court. Do you have any idea how ridiculously easy it is to find a hired gun expert who boldly lies on the stand and proclaims that the guidelines are worthless?

Rule #1 of malpractice law: if the clinical guidelines dont support your case, pay a hired gun $50k to say that the guidelines are incorrect.

What the hell are you talking about? If you bothered to look up any of the medical societies websites you will see a plethora of guidelines for treatment. That stated the human body is not a car or a plane. You can’t expect Y result with X treatment. Please have some idea about what you are talking about before YOU wax poetically about BS.

IME, when medical records are falsified, it’s usually a sin of omission. It’s a lot easier to shade the truth when the record doesn’t indicate one way or the other what happened. Patients and families can contest the record, of course, especially if they happened to witness the event in question, but at the end of the day they are not high enough in the food chain to be taken seriously.

Signed,
Been there, done that and not going there again

What you don’t realize is that there are few objective truths in life. Physicians want to wax poetic about the truth, but they don’t want to establish firm guidelines for treatment – essentially, the “truth” about how to deal with X or Y problem.

Like it is with most people, the “truth” or the definition of “reasonable” is however they see it. Any other interpretation, no matter how truthful or reasonable the other person thinks it is, is “spin”.

Truth can be very much in the eye of the beholder. Did you gloss over key facts? Leave certain questions unanswered? Emphasize minor stuff so the major things might be less likely to get noticed?

We all spin the truth, especially when we’re trying to cover our
backsides.

We could take some made up complaint right here and one of us present the defense and someone else can represent the prosecution and see where the spin would take us. We should do that one day.

Kevin, lets have a trial!

Please do tell us how many falseified charts you have run across. The fact is (and was drilled into every med student in school) that chart falsification are easy to determine by the proper authorities and if determined to have occurred by defintion the doctor will lose the case…peiod. That is not to say it never happens (excuse the double negative) but only a fool would do it.
PS: I have ALWAYS told the truth to patients. It has something to do with the oath I took. How about you counsler?

How are Anon 12:06 and 12:25s statements arrogant? The facts are merely being pointed out to you – read the chart. If any statement is arrogant, it’s yours.”

Because charts are never falsified. Physicians ALWAYS tell the truth.