Re: Expert Witness Affirmation
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Oct 1 14:49:51 2002
and his state board - North Carolina i think - pulled his license too.
art
At Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Virginia SanMiguel wrote:
>
>Just yesterday I read a story in one of the throw away journals about a
>neurosurgeon who was sued. The expert who testified against him testified
>that most neurosurgeons would agree with him that this adverse outcome was
>the result of negligence. The defendant won. The Association of
>Neurosurgeons has its members sign an expert witness affirmation similar to
>ACOG's and revoked the expert's membership. The expert witness sued and
>lost. It turned out that he had no authority on which to base his
>testimony, the studies he cited did not support his position and he had
>only done a few of the same type cases compared to the defendant who had
>done 700 plus. His loss of membership, he claimed, hurt his expert witness
>business. So I guess some good could come of this if ACOG is willing to be
>aggressive.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net]On Behalf Of Richard
>Chudacoff, MD
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:51 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
> Subject: Expert Witness Affirmation
>
> What do y’all think about this affirmation ACOG recently mailed?
>
> Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG
>
> Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC
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