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An expert witness for the plaintiff takes the stand and proceeds to tell the jury patently false statements regarding the standard of care. While this problem is certainly not unique to emergency medicine, it is “exacerbated by the number of ‘experts’ allowed by judges to testify based on limited exposure to emergency medicine, who are not themselves emergency physicians,” says Hugh F. Hill III, MD, JD, FACEP, an assistant professor in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

Don’t Risk Defamation Suit From Lying "Expert": AHC Media