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I am a medical malpractice attorney. I have had several clients or potential clients come to me and said that they had gotten a "second opinion" from another doctor who said that the first doctor was negligent. All the second doctors were subsequent treating physicians with no connection to the first doctor. Each time I consulted with the second doctor, they basically confirmed that they had said what they were said to have said but refused to "get involved."

One doctor even demanded about $700 IIRC to talk to me. I traveled to another city to meet with him for 15 minutes. He made me sit out in his waiting room with his patients for close to an hour. He explained the errors the first doctor had made. But when I asked if he would testify, he said no and that if I forced him to he would deny everything he had said.

I turned away all of these clients. Any potential case would have been ruined by the second doctors who would have testified that they had told me there was no case but we sued anyway.

There is no such thing as a "neutral" or "independent" doctor. They simply will not go against the medical profession unless they are the rare few who have decided that they will testify against doctors when they see negligence.

Years ago, before I did malpractice work, we were the victims of negligence in the delivery of our first child. I filed a complaint with the hospital and went to see the administrator and DON. I really just wanted to see some changes made. It was a truly disgusting experience. They could not admit even the smallest error.

At the time I was against lawsuits. Now I know that I should have sued them. They probably continued their negligent ways and may have caused some other parents and child serious harm.

The "independent" process that you are advocating simply does not exists. If our Freeper friend tried it, they would just use the opportunity to get information AND ALLEGED ADMISSIONS from him in order to damage his case and help the doctor.