Some doctors find it hard to be expert witnesses for the plaintiff
“Eichler said he’d testified numerous times in defense of doctors but he’d never taken the stand for a plaintiff. ‘I just don’t like doing it,’ he said at the time. ‘I’m a neurosurgeon, and I would hate to be sued. I think that people always frown upon physicians who testify against other physicians.'”
Some doctors find it hard to be expert witnesses for the plaintiff
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