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The Development Of Professional Standards For Physician Expert Witnesses In Medical Malpractice Litigation In The United States, John M. Luce Md
The Development Of Professional Standards For Physician Expert Witnesses In Medical Malpractice Litigation In The United States, John M. Luce Md
John M. Luce MD
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The Development Of Professional Standards For Physician Expert Witnesses In Medical Malpractice Litigation In The United States, John M. Luce Md
The Development Of Professional Standards For Physician Expert Witnesses In Medical Malpractice Litigation In The United States, John M. Luce Md
John M. Luce MD
The development of professional standards for physician expert witnesses in medical malpractice litigation in the United States has resulted primarily from the efforts of mainstream medicine to improve its performance and from the efforts of governments and courts to enhance the qualifications of physician experts, if not regulate them externally. At the state level, these efforts to enhance physician experts' qualifications have led to rules requiring that physician experts share the same school of practice, practice specialty, and practice, if not the same practice locality, as those they testify for or against. At the federal level, physician experts' qualifications have …