About EMC
Expert Medical Consultants, Inc. (EMC), a 501-C non-profit corporation, is organized as the public service company to provide all aspects of expert medical witness testimony review, education and research. With these initiatives, EMC will assist the judicial process that requires expert medical witness analysis in order for the judge and jury to properly conduct and issue decisions in medical malpractice trials and proceedings. EMC provides an infrastructure for voluntary non-biased review of closed case expert medical witness testimony for both plaintiff and defendant experts.
Our non-binding advisory groups include a Board of Governors that is comprised of a broad spectrum of representatives of the medical malpractice trial process, including representatives from medical specialty organizations, medical liability insurance companies, national plaintiff and defense legal organizations and state and federal governmental interests. These entities are advisory only and offer balance and visibility to EMC in its mission to insure fairness to patient interests, physician interests and all other parties in the testimony review process. A Specialty Review Committee of EMC, composed of highly reputable physicians for each specialty, conduct prior testimony reviews in a fair and non-biased manner for both plaintiff and defendant experts. The subject expert participates in his own review process to defend his testimony. Their review determines whether the prior, closed case testimony evaluated with the medical records, was given in a manner consistent with the national standards for that specialty existing at the time of the patient injury. Expert witness physicians agreeing to the voluntary testimony review process may be preferred by the judiciary in the future as experts to be certified for the “Trial Court” process gaining use incertain states because of their increased credibility in agreeing to this voluntary review process as to their testimony. As a result, expert medical witnesses will be more circumspect in their testimony, anticipating that a review process could result. Estimates are that “frivolous” expert medical witness testimony in this setting will decrease to the benefit of the trial courts and the physician community, resulting in significant cost savings to all parties, and decreased defensive medicine activities without decreasing the rights of patients to pursue relief for actual medical care errors as a result of standards of care breaches.
The long range missions of EMC in providing specific education regarding medical malpractice avoidance for medical students and residents in training will create an awareness and increased scrutiny for these developing physicians that is expected to reduce breaches of standards of care and therefore decreased medical malpractice exposure in the future for all specialties.