In Clinical Standards in Medicine medical expert witness Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEM, writes: For each of these rules, there are corresponding guidelines which may or may not be appropriate to act on. For example, under character of pain, it may or may not be useful to ask about…
Leading brain injury expert Dr. Neil Martin of UCLA Medical Center says that even falling from a standing position is “a six-foot fall as far as your head is concerned” and that relatively minor accidents can prove fatal. The first three hours following the onset of a critical health episode…
Texas SB 362 which deals with voter identification has cleared the Texas Senate and will be sent to the Texas House. SB 362 will create a more secure election process and strive to ensure elderly and low income Texans who are eligible to vote are able to do so with…
The licensing expert witness opines in cases regarding the multi-billion dollar intellectual property market. In Licensing Overview, Justia.com describes patent licensing: A patent is a grant of a property right to an inventor for an invention that is new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable. Patents are issued by the…
In Clinical Standards in Medicine medical expert witness Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEM, writes: One of the first clinical problems targeted for standards development was Chest Pain. As a prototypic example of clinical policy development, the Specialty Board responsible for the development and implementation of this standard created three…
The licensing expert witness opines in cases regarding the multi-billion dollar intellectual property market. In Licensing Overview, Justia.com describes trademark licensing: Trademarks are also protected intellectual property, generally in the form of a word, symbol, shape, or any sign, that is affixed to a product to indicate its source and…
In Clinical Standards in Medicine medical expert witness Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEM, writes: Potential limitations should be recognized and dealt with such as the possibility that a particular standard becomes obsolete because of new discoveries or advances; or situations where environmental factors such as disaster, overcrowding, or multiple…
The licensing expert witness opines in cases regarding the multi-billion dollar intellectual property market. In Licensing Overview, Justia.com explains: A company or person with intellectual property protected by law who wishes to license that property enters into a licensing agreement with a user, and that agreement becomes a contract, governed…
In Clinical Standards in Medicine medical expert witness Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEM, writes: The existence of clinical standards would enable malpractice litigators to be more selective in their choice of cases. In situations where a clinical standard was followed but where there was an adverse patient outcome, litigators…
W. R. Grace along with five individual defendants, filed a motion Sunday to exclude the toxicology expert witness testimony of Dr. Aubrey Miller. Dr. Miller, an investigator with the EPA, is the prosecution’s key witness. WRG was successful in an earlier attempt to limit the testimony of another key witness,…