| December 2006 · Vol. 18, No. 12 COMMENT & CONTROVERSY
We need to penalize “experts” who give unsupported testimony
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Fast Track
“Until we clean up our own house, we can hardly combat a medicolegal system weighted against the doctor”
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“Membrane sweeping and GBS: A litigious combination?” by Arnold W. Cohen, MD, and Jay Goldberg, MD, MSCP
I appreciated the article on the medicolegal aspects of membrane stripping. My only disappointment is that you did not identify the plaintiff’s “expert” perinatologist. Too often, as a defense expert, I’ve read testimony from pompous “experts” that was not supported by the literature. It would be helpful if we as physicians had a site where we could identify doctors who have given unsupported testimony. If they are in our practice area, we could certainly limit referrals to such unscrupulous physicians.
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