Opinions given by medical experts in court are honest and objective

Partiality and Disclosure in Supreme Court Opinions

This Essay begins by identiying the various kinds of partiality the Justices of the Supreme Court can have in the cases they decide. Although there is widespread recognition of the influence these biases might have, for the most part the Justices continue to write opinions as if they (and other judges) were entirely disinterested. This practice is often thought to be justified as a source ofjud...

Evidence as opinions of experts

We describe a viewpoint on the Dcmpstcr/Shafcr "Theory of Evidence", and provide an interpretation which regards the combination formulas as statistics of the opinions of "experts". This is done by introducing spaces with binary operations that arc simpler to interpret or simpler to implement than the standard combination formula, and showing that these spaces can be mapped homomorphically onto...

Historical and Biblical references in physician-assisted suicide court opinions.

Problems with laparoscopic instruments: opinions of experts.

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic surgery is particularly known for its complex technique, which calls for operative analysis of laparoscopic instruments. This study investigates the opinion of experts about clinical problems with instruments occurring during laparoscopic surgery. METHODS A questionnaire was used to obtain the opinions of expert laparoscopic surgeons about difficulties experienced op...

Medical Man and Court Honours

doctor, or eminent, if he were one." "When the Times takes to writing nou3ense of this kind, its staff must indeed be deficient in matter to fill up their columns with; for it stands to reason that if the objection above raised be valid in the case of doctors, it, is equally so in the instance of lawyers, military men, and, in fact, in an hereditary monarchy ; in elevating a diplomatist or lawy...