Emergency Medicine — Hospice & Palliative

Emergency Medicine — Hospice & Palliative expert witnesses provide opinions on the diagnosis and treatment of those with non-curable life-threatening diseases, including issues of forgone treatments, relief an management of symptoms (eg: pain management), the rights of the cognitively impaired, health care proxies and family members in decision making, including end-of-life decisions.

These specialists may provide medical case reviews and testify in related malpractice matters, including allegations of negligence, unnecessary and ineffective treatments, delayed palliative treatments (eg: pain relief), inconsistent treatments, and palliative care errors by physicians, nurses and other medical staff. As well, these Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care specialists may provide opinions on standards of care at the time of the alleged malpractice.