The Physician Witness: Issues and Ethical Considerations
November/December 2009
By: Victoria L. Vance and Jane F. Warner
Northern Ohio Physician, Vol. 94, No. 6
Physicians are frequent participants in civil litigation. They may be a party or a party's treating physician; or, they may be acting as the medical expert whose purpose is to define the standard of care, opine as to whether the care at issue met the standard and testify about the cause of an injury. Regardless of the role, physician witnesses face distinctive challenges that lay litigants and witnesses do not. The purpose of this article is to alert physicians to these challenges and offer recommendations as to how to avoid legal pitfalls. Read More...
