Medical attorneys will consult experts to verify malpractice

Your medical attorneys will gather records to help them make an assessment regarding the merits and value of your doctor malpractice case. The medical lawyers will then bring these records to be reviewed by an expert to see whether there is a doctor malpractice.

Your medical attorney knows that you need at least one good expert to testify for you, otherwise your doctor malpractice case will not succeed. In fact at the outset of your case, one of the things your medical lawyer will immediately do is try to look for such an expert.

Sometimes your medical attorney will tell you who he's been talking to, but sometimes he won't. When he doesn't tell you about the expert, it's usually because he's just following the medical expert's wishes. Some experts do not want to receive calls from clients, especially when they have told the medical attorney that there's no malpractice. Some medical attorneys use physicians they know and have worked with. Other medical attorneys use services that provide a list of medical professionals and doctors who have agreed to look at doctor malpractice cases.

Usually, medical lawyers will choose a medical expert who is from the same field or area of specialty as the defendant doctor. The role of the expert here is try to decide whether or not the care that was rendered by the defendant deviated from the accepted standard of care.

What the medical expert will be doing basically is decide whether the defendant health care provider or doctor committed a significant error, either by his act (doing something) or omission (not doing something). Based on the expert witness' opinion about your doctor malpractice case, your medical attorney can now make an accurate evaluation about its merits and value.