What is a Medical Expert Witness?
A medical expert witness is a licensed healthcare professional who provides a court, tribunal, or committee with an impartial medical opinion, especially in cases of medical malpractice, personal injury, or abuse. They clarify complex medical information, explain standards of care, and help judges or juries understand medical facts that are often unfamiliar to people outside of the medical profession.
Subject Matter Expert
A medical expert is an experienced and trained physician who is hired for his expertise in connecting the medical and legal worlds.
Interpreter of Evidence
The information provided by a medical expert witness for medical cases, is used by the clients, lawyers, and courts to interpret the medical evidence.
Relevant Medical Advisor
Medical expert witnesses understand medical procedures, diagnostics, and treatments relevant to your case.
Assistant to Legal Counsel
A medical expert witness is not a lawyer, but helps unite lawyers with medical expertise and standard practices.
Why consult a Medical Expert Witness?
If you are a family looking to have an unbiased review of your case to determine the strengths and gaps of a case.
If you represent a legal team looking for interpretation of medical or hospital related cases to bring before a judge or jury.
If you want your strongest documented case in any malpractice suit, medical record interpretation, or medical record review.
If you want laypersons to hear medical evidence as a comprehensive presentation and have their questions answered expertly.
Who is Dr. Derrick Dauplaise?
Dr. Dauplaise is an invited speaker on the national and regional levels for his expertise.
He is a double board certified physician in Pediatrics and in Critical Care, with nearly two decades of clinical practice and expertise.
He has reviewed numerous cases as a medical expert. He has experience in writing opinions, giving testimony in depositions, grand jury testimony, and in court.
He strives to bring the complexities of medical cases into understandable explanations for the jury. He believes it is important to make complex concepts as simple as possible to be understood. He is willing to take the time to achieve this.
Let Dr. Dauplaise be a team member that helps to provide an unbiased review that will give you the needed information and insight to achieve strong results. He is dedicated to be prompt, thorough, professional, and responsive.
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