Doctors Caught Red Handed Trying To Manipulate Medical Malpractice Trial
Medical malpractice trial lawyers and their injured clients experience first hand the pain and injustice of a too common practice of doctors using misleading junk medical studies to avoid paying for their mistakes. Often they get away with it.
Not this time. Not in the case of Salvant v. State in which judges ruled that doctors could not use a medical study as evidence because it was misleading and intellectually dishonest.
The article purported to say that 50 percent of all brachial plexus birth injuries happened to newborns who did not experience shoulder dystocia. Shoulder dystocia is a situation during child labor when the baby’s shoulder gets stuck behind the mother’s pubic bone.
However, the data the doctors used in the study was unreliable and unverified and could not support a valid scientific conclusion. Kudos to the court for calling a spade a spade and throwing out this junk science. Justice goes unserved when verdicts are tainted by junk studies masquerading as real science.
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