Why lawyers object having a physician on a malpractice screening panel
“Lawyers argue that a doctor’s presence on the board, if only by dint of having special knowledge, would prejudice the proceeding against patients. They want claims screened by a single judge experienced in such cases, a proposal that’s anathema to physicians.”
Again I ask, how are non-physicians supposed to determine what is malpractice? Perhaps I’ll go to a lawyer for my next physical instead – they claim to know as much medicine as physicians anyways.
