BY: ELLIOTT B. OPPENHEIM, MD, JD, LLM HEALTH LAW In forty-two years of experience in medical negligence and criminal defense litigation, I have learned that often you can use the opposing party’s medical expert witness as your witness. Many lawyers, when they confront medical expert testimony or e...

Your personal injury liability case is strong. The damages, though, “up for grabs.” Your doc’s opinions are favorable but the defense IME disagrees on the exact injuries, on causations, and on the dollar values. What to do? Your next step is to depose the IME doctor. How do you challenge an op...

When you confront scientific evidence in criminal defense what is your approach? Do you whip out your Smart phone and hope to find an expert to support your view of the scientific facts? That is not a bad approach, but it is expensive and has some risks. One risk is that you never know, until [&hell...

By Brad Burg, Senior Editor Medical Economics    At 3:30 am on Sept. 15, 1991, Theodore Cherukuri woke up to a physician’s nightmare. As the on-call general surgeon for his small-town hospital emergency room in Williamson, KY, he was needed immediately. There’d been an auto acciden...