Dentists should feel encouraged and empowered to undertake expert witness work
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
On humanizing the expert witness: a proposed narrative approach to expert witness qualification.
Before expert witnesses may testify in court, it is necessary that they be qualified to render an expert opinion. The qualification process has three steps: first, the expert’s training, education, experience, and other indices of qualification are elicited on direct examination by the retaining attorney. Second, a proffer is made to the court of the witness as an expert; the proffer may be cha...
متن کاملWhy lesbians should be encouraged to have regular cervical screening.
INTRODUCTION The UK National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme (NHSCSP) advice on cervical cytology screening states that women who have never had sex with men are at very low risk of developing cervical cancer, and advice regarding need for screening in lesbians is inconsistent. METHODS Literature review searching PubMed, Web of Science and the Internet for articles on lesbians, ce...
متن کاملExpert witness reform.
The legal system depends on the medical expert for evidence. Doctors readily complain about frivolous cases that go to trial, yet a lawyer cannot bring a frivolous claim to trial without a physician expert witness stating that the claim is not frivolous. An insurance company cannot raise premiums without medical expert witnesses servicing the increasing litigation against the insured. Physician...
متن کاملShould we undertake genetic research on intelligence?
Although the concept of intelligence is difficult to define, research has provided evidence for a significant genetic component. Attempts are now being made to use molecular genetic approaches to identify genes contributing to intelligence, and to determine the ways in which they interact with environmental variables. This research is then likely to determine the developmental pathways of intel...
متن کاملShould ENT surgeons undertake pituitary surgery?
Pituitary surgery was first carried out at the turn of the century. Victor Horsley in his address to the 74th Annual meeting of the British Medical Association, published in 1906, made brief reference to 10 cases he had operated upon by what is assumed to have been a sub-temporal approach. Schloffer published an article in 1907 describing a per nasal trans-sphenoidal operation and in 1909 Oskar...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BDJ in practice
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2057-3308', '2520-8675']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41404-022-1820-x