{"id":428,"date":"2014-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/can-midwives-testify-against-nurses-in-birth-injury-cases\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:30:17","slug":"can-midwives-testify-against-nurses-in-birth-injury-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-midwives-testify-against-nurses-in-birth-injury-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Can midwives testify against nurses in birth injury cases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In medical malpractice cases, expert testimony is critically important. After all, an expert must testify as to the standard of care expected out of a medical professional and what a reasonable physician, nurse or attendant should have (or would have) done in a given situation. As such, a surgeon would likely serve as an expert witness in a matter involving a surgical mistake. A sports medicine physician would likely testify in a matter involving an athlete\u2019s malpractice claim.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to malpractice cases involving birth injuries, would it be appropriate to have a midwife testify about the expectations of nurses in a delivery room? The Georgia Court of Appeals recently dealt with this <a href=\"http:\/\/injurylawyer-news.com\/2014\/12\/midwife-testifies-nurses-ga-birth-injury-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">question<\/a>, and found that it would be proper for a licensed midwife to testify about the conduct and expectations of attending nurses.<\/p>\n<p>At issue was whether the nurses were negligent when misinterpreting a fetus\u2019 vitals before birth. The baby experienced a period of prolonged oxygen deprivation during labor, causing it to be born with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/birth-injuries.html\">severe brain damage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-midwives-testify-against-nurses-in-birth-injury-cases\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Can midwives testify against nurses in birth injury cases?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In medical malpractice cases, expert testimony is critically important. After all, an expert must testify as to the standard of care expected out of a medical professional and what a reasonable physician, nurse or attendant should have (or would have) done in a given situation. As such, a surgeon would likely serve as an expert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injuries","tag-birth-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can midwives testify against nurses in birth injury cases? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; December 19, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can midwives testify against nurses in birth injury cases? - Birth Injuries - 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\/can-midwives-testify-against-nurses-in-birth-injury-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Can midwives testify against nurses in birth injury cases? 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