Because of the judge:
. . . a New York state appeals court has thrown out a $14 million medical malpractice verdict, holding that a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge’s inappropriate conduct, including presenting the brain-damaged 4-year-old plaintiff with a box of candy in front of the jury, denied the defense a fair trial.
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This case was in the legendary Brooklyn courts where Judges are bought and sold (and go to prison) for surprising little money. One Judge went to jail recently (Judge Garsen) for charging $20,000 to fix divorce cases. The political leader of the Brooklyn went to jail, caught charging $50,000 for lawyers to purchase judgeships.
Too bad the case was not dismissed on Daubert (verifiable science) Rules of Evidence: Namely that allowing vaginal births is NOT the cause of Cerebral Palsy. This is the typical CP scam by a John Edwards wannabe: total bogus claims of malpractice. You can have a Caesarian rate of 100% and it still would have absolutely no effect on the rate of Cerebral Palsy.
In any case the “judge” was mesmerizingly inappropriate and should be removed from the bench.
Ed Sodaro MD
Doctor, CP absolutely can be caused by lack of oxygen during birth or trauma during birth, and you’ll find no reputable medical study claiming otherwise.
You are in the wrong if you claim that CP can never be caused by malpractice.
The rate of cerebral palsy has not decreased in developed countries over the past 30 years, despite the widespread use of electronic fetal heart rate monitoring and a 5-fold increase in the cesarean delivery rate over the same period of time.
The lawyer industry is running another of its brazen, intensely lucrative scams.
Vaginal births do NOT cause CP. Caesarian sections do NOT prevent CP.
Ed Sodaro MD
Out of curiosity, what are indications to perform a c-section in order to avoid CP?
To anonymous, 12:49, should every birth be c-section to avoid CP?
“Vaginal births do NOT cause CP. Caesarian sections do NOT prevent CP.”
Considering no one has claimed either of those things as a general rule, you’re absolutely correct! Kudos.
“To anonymous, 12:49, should every birth be c-section to avoid CP?”
No, has someone said they should?
Of course not all vaginal births cause cerebral palsy. Only the vaginal births of CP kids cause carebral palsy. And no one is suggesting all parturients should be C-sectioned. Otherwise the trial bar would have to come up with new junk science. In the meantime, the incidence of cerebral palsy will march through unchanged, as it has for decades.
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