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Originally Posted by cracher
Categorically untrue. You can find someone to support any angle, no matter what the variance is from the community standard of care. It's a field of competing egos, not the fraternity you describe.
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Well I'm not sure how either of us could ever prove anything here. I just know from what amounts to anecdotal cases that this has happened in many cases. You can't build a case against someone without an expert, which in this case is another doctor, who is willing to give evidence. They're largely not willing to do that because they're worried about potentially being on the other side down the road. The only potential option is to get someone from a completely unrelated jurisdiction to come in and give that evidence.
It absolutely happens. I know that there are some lawyers on this board and maybe one of them could chime in and add their thoughts. While I'm not a lawyer and never have been, I've definitely seen this in action. You have to cross a few bridges to make a case happen in terms of medical malpractice that I've seen; first you have to find someone willing to give the evidence (usually a doctor from somewhere else in the world), then that doctor has to agree with your position that there is something to the case. This isn't like one doctor is going to be more than happy to go after his competitor across the hallway at all. Its very difficult.