Serving: Ardmore, Mainline, and Center City Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Villanova, Gladwyne, Narberth, Wynnewood, Bala Cynwyd, Paoli, Devon, Delaware Cherry Hill, Haddonfield, Penn Valley, Radnor, Wayne, Lower Merion
Vascular Surgery Expert Witness and Medical Malpractice Litigation in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and the State of Georgia
Lee Kirksey MD is available in the state of Pennsylvania, the State of Georgia and the State of New Jersey to provide medical expert chart review as a board certified vascular surgeon in peripheral vascular surgery. As an expert witness, Dr Kirksey provides medical expert services for cases involving the identification, diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease. Dr Kirksey is available to consult and testify regarding these areas of medical liability in vascular medicine and vascular surgery.
As a vascular surgery expert witness Dr Kirksey is:
Board Certified
Extensive experience-clinically active in patient care with ongoing research experience
Able to provide an objective written opinion and eloquently communicate these findings
Dr Kirksey is available for case review (file review), literature review, opinion letters, surgical product review, surgical outcomes, treatment guidelines and clinical/surgical explanations.
Liability topics in vascular surgery and woundcare
Extremity amputation due to gangrene, ulceration, nonhealing wounds
Prompt identification and timely treatment of limb ischemia, carotid stenosis and abdominal aortic aneurysm
Dialysis access creation (fistula, graft) and steal syndrome
What a MEDICAL - LEGAL EVALUATIONS and Independent Medical Examinations in New Jersey, Philadelphia Pennsylvania and Georgia provides
A Medical Legal Evaluation should provide educated, balanced, and germane medical information as required by the legal system.
Our Expert Medical Consultant services are provided on a timely basis.
Practicing physicians are sometimes best qualified to render expert medical opinions as they have extensive experience in diagnosing and treating patients with the conditions in question..
Objective opinions are most likely to occur when the expert has years of personal experience with the subject.
Additional benefits of Medical Legal evaluations or an Independent Medical Examination
Customized evaluation and report to assess the validity of a claim from the non biased expert physician viewpoint.
Recommend additional testing that may help the patient and support the claim
Suggest additional treatment options or alternatives ie, can hyperbaric oxygen therapy potentially salvage this gangrenous extremity.
A "fresh set of eyes" can sometimes offers a previously unidentified approach to the defense of a medical malpractice or plaintiff case
Guidelines For Testimony By Vascular Surgeons Serving As Expert Witnesses In Litigation from the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)
Preamble
The American legal system often calls for expert medical testimony. Proper functioning of this system requires that when such testimony is needed, it be truly expert, impartial, and available to all litigants. To that end, the following guidelines have been adopted by the Society for Vascular Surgeons ("SVS"). These guidelines apply to all SVS members providing expert opinion services to attorneys, litigants, or the judiciary in the context of civil or criminal matters and include written expert opinions as well as sworn testimony.
A. Impartial Testimony
1. The vascular surgeon expert witness shall be an impartial educator for attorneys, jurors and the court on the subject of vascular surgery practice.
2. The vascular surgeon expert witness shall represent and testify as to the practice behavior of a prudent vascular surgeon giving difference viewpoints if such there are.
3. The vascular surgeon expert witness shall identify as such any personal opinions that vary significantly from generally accepted vascular surgical practice.
4. The vascular surgeon expert witness shall recognize and correctly represent the full standard of vascular surgery care and shall with reasonable accuracy state whether a particular action was clearly within, clearly outside of, or close to the margins of the standard of vascular surgery care.
5. The vascular surgeon expert witness shall not be evasive for the purpose of favoring one litigant over another. The vascular surgeon expert shall answer all properly framed questions pertaining to his or her opinions on the subject matter thereof.
B. Subject Matter Knowledge
1. The vascular surgeon expert witness shall have sufficient knowledge of and experience in the specific subject(s) of his or her written expert opinion or sworn oral testimony to warrant designation as an expert. Ideally, the witness should hold current hospital privileges to perform those same procedures.
2. The vascular surgeon expert witness shall review all pertinent available medical information about a particular patient prior to rendering an opinion about the appropriateness of medical or surgical management of the patient.
3. The vascular surgeon expert witness shall be very familiar with prior and current concepts of standard vascular surgical practices before giving testimony or providing a written opinion about such practice standards. Ideally, the witness should be able to demonstrate evidence of continuing medical education relevant to the subject matter of the case.
