http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/physician-defends-expert-witness.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/physician-defends-expert-witness.html/comment-page-1#comment-70321 Anonymous Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/a-physician-defends-the-expert-witness-system.html#comment-70321 Anon 8h00 - did they teach basic literacy skills at your law school?<br/>Can you read? Anon 8h00 – did they teach basic literacy skills at your law school?
Can you read?

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/physician-defends-expert-witness.html/comment-page-1#comment-70291 DT35 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:40:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/a-physician-defends-the-expert-witness-system.html#comment-70291 The reason this is a "minority view" is because it's a load of codswollop. The number of experts actually pursued by specialty boards or licensing agencies is vanishingly small, and the number of physicians willing to testify in support of plaintiffs' claims increases every year. I've deposed Gary Lustgarten repeatedly, and in my opinion, he deserved everything that happened to him (very little, in the end) and more and better besides. The reason this is a “minority view” is because it’s a load of codswollop. The number of experts actually pursued by specialty boards or licensing agencies is vanishingly small, and the number of physicians willing to testify in support of plaintiffs’ claims increases every year. I’ve deposed Gary Lustgarten repeatedly, and in my opinion, he deserved everything that happened to him (very little, in the end) and more and better besides.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/physician-defends-expert-witness.html/comment-page-1#comment-70288 Anonymous Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:00:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/a-physician-defends-the-expert-witness-system.html#comment-70288 We also know from reading the comments of physicians here that it doesn't matter if they're right or wrong - testifying for a plaintiff is all many of you need to call them a whore. Testify for a defendant and be wrong (yes, the defense pays its experts, too), and you're just doing the right thing and protecting the profession. You won't be called a whore. We also know from reading the comments of physicians here that it doesn’t matter if they’re right or wrong – testifying for a plaintiff is all many of you need to call them a whore. Testify for a defendant and be wrong (yes, the defense pays its experts, too), and you’re just doing the right thing and protecting the profession. You won’t be called a whore.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/physician-defends-expert-witness.html/comment-page-1#comment-70284 Anonymous Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:50:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/a-physician-defends-the-expert-witness-system.html#comment-70284 If you act as an expert witness and give an opinion against a colleague that deviates from the accepted standard of care you deserve to get eaten by your professional body - if however your testimony is based on evidence and best practice then you have not crossed the white line and become a plaintif whore.<br/>The funny thing is that we all know the guys that have that particular reputation and there is no question that if a colleague testifies and this results in a negative consequence - he had better be right !..........or else! If you act as an expert witness and give an opinion against a colleague that deviates from the accepted standard of care you deserve to get eaten by your professional body – if however your testimony is based on evidence and best practice then you have not crossed the white line and become a plaintif whore.
The funny thing is that we all know the guys that have that particular reputation and there is no question that if a colleague testifies and this results in a negative consequence – he had better be right !……….or else!

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/physician-defends-expert-witness.html/comment-page-1#comment-70276 Anonymous Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/a-physician-defends-the-expert-witness-system.html#comment-70276 That physician better hope he remains anonymous. You don't cross the white line without getting punished. That physician better hope he remains anonymous. You don’t cross the white line without getting punished.

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