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Re: CNMs From: Gail Waldby (gwaldby@willinet.net) Tue Jul 8 18:11:32 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: CNMs" Previous message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNMs" I think it is correct that borderline cases are avoided usually by plaintiffs' attorneys, however, borderline to them are cases that they can't win, rather than cases that don't have merit. I was an expert witness in a Maryland case though last year. The plaintiffs attorney was a very rich 80 year old without family or hobbies who loves to sue doctors--I don't think it mattered to him that he lost--it was just one more opportunity to harass physicians at trial (I did my trial testimony by video and apparently it was convincing to the jury). Case was an obturator nerve injury at a Burch through an old midline incision in medium lithotomy position--the obturator palsy resolved but the patient complained of chronic pain. Gail Waldby, MD Huron Clinic SD Anna Meenan, MD wrote: > At Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Marilyn Ringstaff wrote: > > Gosh, Marilyn, as someone to whom this "simply didn't happen", I'm a > little offended by your assertion. The lawyer who took on a borderline > (at best) case and sued me doesn't seem to be in any danger of going > bankrupt. I was dismissed from the case after more than a year but some > of my partners are still involved in this "borderline" (at best) case. > > Anna Meenan, MD, FAAFP > > It simply doesn’t happen that attorneys > >>take on cases they think are borderline, with the fees experts are >>charging these days, they’d go bankrupt to pursue cases without clear >>liability. >> >>-- >>Marilyn Ringstaff, CNM >> > Next message: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: CNMs" Previous message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNMs"

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