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Re: Advice on refuting claims of negligence in Birth injuryFrom: Dean Huffman (jth@springnet1.com)Sun Feb 18 19:11:43 2001
.. Very interesting. Is there any sort of database out there of "hired guns" and cases in which their testimony or their veracity has been impeached, so that the same information can be used over again to discredit their testimony? - - - - Re: Advice on refuting claims of negligence in Birth injury From: ENDODOK@aol.com Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:51:58 EST ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had an immediate boot-up of this article via the link. It is interesting that the plaintiff's expert witness , Dr Nathanson, has been associated with New York trial lawyers specializing in bad baby cases as far back as the 70's-80's. I attended a "course" entitled "Medical Malpractice- the Brain Damaged Baby" in San Francisco, sponsored by New York Law Press. This group of plaintiff's attorneys had Dr.Nathanson on the lecture panel. About half the attendees were defense attorneys, and half were plaintiff attorneys. There were approximately 300 attendees, and I believe I was the only MD (Not announced as such). After listening to such aggressive and threatening lawyers explain how to build the wining case, I recall vivdly Nathanson (who has a very soft-spoken manner, and a list of "credentials" a page long) announce that an Erb's palsy IS malpractice,as the proper manouvers if employed make the resolution of a shoulder dystocia very easy and without harm. At that point, totally disgusted, I had to disclose who I was and attempt to refute his nonsense. Several years later a colleague was being sued on a case of twins with cerebral palsy, ( developmental) here in Santa Barbara, and guess who was one of the star "plaintiff's experts"?? It was sweet retribution to lead him on the stand to state under oath that he was never a "hired gun"; Our defense counsel had proof that he had previously testified innumerable times as plaintiff's expert, and when we related to the jury the San Francisco course conducted on how to sue obstetricians, ( he had the audacity to state in court that he never participated in courses teaching lawyers how to sure doctors!!) he was totally discredited. J.Glenn Bradley MD PS: I offered my comments to Chris via private e-mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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