Is it possible to get a fair hearing? Don all doctors close ranks?
If you have genuinely received treatment of a poor standard then nowadays it is usually possible to identify an independent expert in the appropriate field who will be prepared to say that in his view, your care was sub-standard. In recent years, more doctors have come to realise that ‘closing ranks’ is simply likely to bring their profession into disrepute. Expert witnesses are required under the Civil Procedure Rules to be impartial and have a duty to the Court rather than to the party who instructs them, so it should be possible to obtain a genuinely independent and impartial view.
