Litigation

Deposing Difficult Doctors: 15 Tips

By Evan Schaeffer

At the website for the book Deposing and Examining Doctors, by Kim Patrick Hart (James Publishing), you'll find 15 free practice tips from the book.

An example--

Points of agreement. No matter how much of an advocate the defense physician is, you will find things in his report that you can agree on. For instance, this is a perfect time to re-emphasize the points in your client?s history that bear underlining, such as cause of the crash, the severity of the impact, and the fact that your client was wearing a seatbelt. Beginning the cross-examination with five to ten leading questions with which the compulsory medical examiner admits he agrees is a great way to give the impression that there really is not much of a debate about the injury. It also sets up a great closing argument technique.

There's more at the link. Just scroll down . . .

Full post as published by The Illinois Trial Practice Blog on December 29, 2009 (boomark / email).