{"id":316,"date":"2015-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/what-a-doctor-may-argue-in-defending-a-medical-malpractice-case\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:25","slug":"what-a-doctor-may-argue-in-defending-a-medical-malpractice-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/what-a-doctor-may-argue-in-defending-a-medical-malpractice-case\/","title":{"rendered":"What a doctor may argue in defending a medical malpractice case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical malpractice accusations can be staunchly defended. After all, physicians, who have been trained since college to be right all of the time, do not take kindly to having their expertise questioned. Nevertheless, this is what occurs in a medical malpractice lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>With the amount of money that can be awarded in medical malpractice suits, and the threat to a physician\u2019s reputation, you can expect that there will be some strong <a href=\"http:\/\/injury.findlaw.com\/medical-malpractice\/proving-fault-in-medical-malpractice-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\">defenses<\/a>. This post will highlight a few common ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statute of limitations \u2013 <\/strong>If a plaintiff does not bring a lawsuit in the amount of time allowed under law, a doctor could argue that an action is \u201ctime barred.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/what-a-doctor-may-argue-in-defending-a-medical-malpractice-case\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading What a doctor may argue in defending a medical malpractice case\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical malpractice accusations can be staunchly defended. After all, physicians, who have been trained since college to be right all of the time, do not take kindly to having their expertise questioned. Nevertheless, this is what occurs in a medical malpractice lawsuit. With the amount of money that can be awarded in medical malpractice suits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What a doctor may argue in defending a medical malpractice case &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; June 18, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What a doctor may argue in defending a medical malpractice case - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/what-a-doctor-may-argue-in-defending-a-medical-malpractice-case\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"What a doctor may argue in defending a medical malpractice case &#8212; 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