<span itemprop="author">Howard Smith, MD

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Shortcomings of plaintiff attorneys in Byrom vs. Johns Hopkins

As shown in my earlier post, when prosecuting Byrom vs. Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital with inductive reasoning, as is traditional, the medical intervention is compared to the standard of care in a very general and subjective way. The medical intervent…

When medical malpractice is not medical malpractice

In medical malpractice, inductive reasoning regards the standard of care as the duty to do no harm. If there is a complication from a medical intervention and the medical intervention differs from the standard of care in any conceivable way, the differ…