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Post by RocDoc on May 9, 2006 13:26:28 GMT -5
Expert witnesses, eh?
Boy, can that be a tough number to find...I've found that many health sub-specialty practitioners are only willing to testify in their own behalf and will find it difficult to sign on against a co-practitioner in their specialty. In large part because of the way lawyers misunderstand (often completely willfully because they wish only to 'win' for their client) the intricacies of the 'more borderline cases.
I have a friend who's truly an excellent lawyer here, who asked if I miight know of a good radiologist who he might be able to sign on to testify against another radiologist who'd misread on this malpractice/negligence case that he was now handling and on 3 others besides...this radiologist (who is likewise a top practitioner here) said, nope, I don't do those anymore.
He'd had some testimony twisted up against himself once and vowed not to be an instrument of the legal profession again, IF he had a choice.
I absolutely DESPISE having to do depositions...and am now sweating out whether I'll be called to testify at trial in the next few weeks, for a case involving one of my patients...crazy ass complicated case now involving police corruption, blahblahblah....ai!
One for which I do NOT want anyone playing with their questions and my words until they get an answer which halfway satisfies their 'purpose'...I do not like that shit and my patience gets stretched to a thread...
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Post by rockkid on May 10, 2006 7:35:24 GMT -5
Not deep enough to be considered rape!!! That’s the most ludicrous thing ever!!!
Excuse me but penetration of anything concerning adult vs. child would be rape wouldn’t it.
Me thinks the examiner needs a different job because he’s/she’s shit at that one.
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Post by angel on May 10, 2006 9:57:25 GMT -5
rockdoc - I have heard a lot about PI and negligence cases which makes me glad that is not what we do. Luckily our experts tend to be relied on by the advocates and the court and they do generally defer.
In child protection, NOONE wants to be held responsible for the death or injury to a child -there is not as much room for egos when a child's welfare is at stake (thank god)
The experts are not often called to give oral testimony in support of their reports.
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Post by poseidon on May 14, 2006 15:20:31 GMT -5
VENT: Why do persons wait until the last moment before they turn on their freakin' turn signal? Especially when ones waiting to turn right onto the road. Those persons get a big middle finger sailin' in the wind directed in their general vicinity.
Also: Walmart. Why doesn't Walmart carry onion or salt bagels? My fav kind. Have to go to another grocery for the onion and a friggin' bakery for the salt.
Vewy annoying!
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Post by strat-0 on May 14, 2006 21:19:34 GMT -5
I'd say fully one-quarter don't use turn signals around here, even when stopping traffic behind them when making a left turn. It is indeed irksome.
Urinal: a device designed to spatter wee-wee onto your shoes, or hands and pants. Some try to angle their stream in such a way as to reduce this, but it's only partially effective. I use the stall instead.
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Post by RocDoc on May 15, 2006 14:18:43 GMT -5
At least you guys live in relatively ice-free southern style temperate climates...try wintertime in Chicago when the fuckers just decide to jam on their brakes and turn.
Or slide over to your lane.
Shitheads ignore all law of physics relating to their self-preservation and mine...
Yeah, for you guys there are the rainstorms too, but snow and ice are still a coupla degrees worse to have to adjust bearing when someone decides you needed no warning to where they're planning to go.....
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And Oh! Regarding 'witnesses....FWIW I'm getting called to the witness stand sometime next week ('TBA') to see if the defense lawyers can use 2 different accounts of how my patient's accident occurred, both of which are in my notes, to establish that I'm part of ongoing conspiracy to besmirch the constabulary (!) of a nearby town whose police were being paid-off to call this rental-truck company's boss if any accidents occurred in their town involving any of his trucks.
A reaching-for-straws bullshit defense, but it sure makes me wonder (nervously) what they're wasting all of our time and money for...because it has been brought out that these coppers had falsified LOTS of reports previously. There are trails and more trails of 'questionable paperwork' from this PD...
My guy needed the jaws-of-life to extricate his ankle from his truck and he had 7 rib fractures and broken clavicle AND a serious concussion, after this semi took out the left front corner of his van....and they wrote it up as though he was at fault because he was a foreigner who was 1) able to speak little english on a good day and 2) because his head injuries had put him even further from reality than the language incapacity did...
The lead defense attorney is a complete fucking jag, too....
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on May 15, 2006 22:11:50 GMT -5
Have you ever been called to testify in court before, RD? How dramatic. I'm a bit sus on cops. I've had many an encounter with great policemen (plus, they look awfully sexy in their combat boot get-ups) who actually have people's best interest at heart, but in my (admittedly limited) experience with needing assistance from the police, I wasn't very impressed. For eg, if you're ever in the position where you need an AVO or restraining order out on someone, you'd better hope you have some physical evidence to show because you won't get one until you've been assaulted by that person & had to give statements to a cop who was half-drunk & half-perverted. Bullshite. Then again, theres a lot of coppers out there who've let me off many speeding tickets. Heroes, they are  Bless their cotton socks. |
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on May 15, 2006 22:14:58 GMT -5
My gripe for this week:
I hate when you're at a bar & the waitress is clearing your table & takes every single glass which isn't more than one-third full. What a gyp. Especially when you're drinking whiskey shots. One finger of whiskey in my shottie is drinkable, biatch. Don't you take it! That one sip of spirits might be all I need to tip me over & give me karaoke confidence.
I'm allowed to rant about waitresses, because I was one for many years. I made sure my customers drank every last drop, dammit.
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Post by RocDoc on May 16, 2006 14:51:30 GMT -5
In the 13 years since I'm outta school, this case produced the first deposition...and now the first trial testimony, whenever it is that these guys decide to drag me in...
I guess I've just been lucky, plain and simple.
I'm waiting on my patient's atty to get my deposition's transcripts over to me so I can see how it went then...like say a year ago.
I charged 'em 400 bucks an hour then (a bargain as these things go)...this time my price will have gone up an extra hunnert....
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on May 16, 2006 21:50:35 GMT -5
I wish I was in private practise so I could charge assholes loads of money for things.
My case papers for the assessment of the little girl I discovered was being sexually abused will be subpoena'd for court. Eek. I have messy writing...
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on May 16, 2006 21:52:09 GMT -5
Can you even subpoena case files? I don't know. But anyway.
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on May 16, 2006 22:00:49 GMT -5
I love venting. Here is some more. A little while ago at work I had to assess a head injury in-patient, just as standard procedure (as part of assessing extent of injury & determining his level of functioning etc). Anyway, this guy was fine, no major injuries. I was looking at his med file though, and police report (he was in a car accident - all alone, just him in the car, crashed into a tree) & its all very suspicious. He was speeding & crashed into a tree on a straight road, on a clear night, when he wasn't even drunk. I know reckless driving can make you veer off a straight road, but this didn't add up. ALSO - when he was pulled out of the car the seatbelt was around his neck. Seatbelts don't just unbuckle themselves & slip out over your arm & around your neck - doesn't happen. All this, combined with his behaviour, made myself & a colleague suspect he was actually trying to kill himself (more car accidents than you think are not really 'accidents' at all). So we asked his parents if we could give him a suicide risk assessment (he is underage) & they refused. They didn't even want to entertain the idea that their kid had anything but an accident -a highly, bizarre accident that doesn't really add up. They actually seem like loving, kind, adjusted parents, but just don't want a bar of any suggestion that their kid is tried to off himself. Then today his school contacted us with concerns about his behaviour, but I can't do anything, or even talk to his teachers, without his parents consent. This kid is going to end up back in hospital, I know it. With worse injuries. Or dead. And my colleague & I are going to be partially responsible, but I can't really do anything about this  |
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Post by Thorngrub on May 24, 2006 9:44:03 GMT -5
I can't stand it when people think you lack some kind of balance just because you come across or appear as if you love everything. Screw these downward spiralling jerks right into the ground. It's not our fault we see the positive in things, nor that we sift through for the gems in the dirt (and toss away the dirt). WTF. I ain't got room for a dirt collection bitches! And I ain't got time to waste on dirt neitha.
I see some folk who seem hellbent on picking apart everything they see in order to find the negative in it. Then they seem to magnify the negativity out of proportion and plan their entire critique on this aspect. Fuck that goddamn bullshit. Life's too short to be obsessed about what is "wrong" with shit! Leave that to the cynics. And while I'm on the subject of cynics - fuck em all straight to hell. There they can really go to town picking apart the foul bullshit and miasma - - fuck, they can drown in it for all they care. I'm not without my own deadly spikes of cynicism (I just know how to temper it is all).
So this goes out to all you cynical fucks out there. I ain't livin in "La-dee-da Land", and if you think I am, well fuck you very much then. What it is, is I have long cultivated this skill, yo. That's right. It's a skill -- same as being a dumbass cynical fuck gets to be a skill. You cultivate that shit. Keep on cultivating this negative mentality and pretty soon - you're a bona fide distrustful, skeptical, suspicious, derisive, mocking, sardonic, scornful, defeatist, fatalistic, unsentimental, jaded bitch-ass chump. So go ahead, I dare ya. Keep on cultivating that oh-so-sophisticated, wordly-wise attitude. Then choke on it one sunny afternoon during crumpets and tea.
Me? I ain't got time for negativity. There's too much beauty stuffed to bursting in this world. Not to mention we all only live once. So take it from this "thoRny" one (*wink*): sift through the bullshit for the diamonds in the rough, and discard the steaming pile of offal that you would otherwise drown in.
~This has been a public service announcement on the RS.castaways VENT board. Excuse me while I go strangle a nurse.
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Post by frag on May 24, 2006 9:57:55 GMT -5
thorny, you sound upset. Here you are, my love:  |
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Post by Thorngrub on May 24, 2006 10:08:13 GMT -5
That rant was me in a good mood, frag. But I'll tell ya what. Now that you've given me this bouquet of flowers, I'm nigh - ecstatic. * sniffs flower & gets stung on the nose by a bee*  |
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