Getting a Witness in a Medical Malpractice Case

Before any healthcare professional begins his medical practice, he must swear by the Hippocratic Oath, which is widely believed to have been written by Hippocrates, the Father of Western Medicine. With this oath, all medical practitioners promise that they will provide quality medical treatment to their patients fairly and honesty, and swear to do no harm. Unfortunately, quality healthcare is not assured 100 percent of the time.

A doctor whose failure to perform quality treatment on a patient results in worsening of the latter's condition could find could be due to a number of different causes, including negligence. In U.S. medical history, perhaps one of the most prominent cases of medical malpractice involved a blood type O 17-year-old girl who underwent a heart and double-lung transplant from a blood type A donor—clearly it was a fatal mistake that could have been avoided had the medical practitioners done their job.

However, to establish that a doctor or physician had committed an error, it is important for the patient's loved ones to engage the services of a medical malpractice witness. A medical malpractice witness can provide technical information in the medical malpractice case that an ordinary lawyer cannot, no matter how hard he works. With valuable testimony from a medical expert, a judge is likely to dismiss the case.