Author: John J. Elwell

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781230053844

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...are called '' doctors," they can appear upon the witness stand and decide those momentous questions to which we have referred. It will not be tolerated. However anxious an incompetent witness may be, to appear learned, and however hard he may labor to show it, he will ever find it uphill business to make the court and counsel believe that he is really so. To appear really learned, he must be able to make the subject upon which he gives an opinion, clear, and to give satisfactory reasons for his opinion. He must be not only a thinker himself, but must satisfy others that he is master of the subject Take almost any one of the important scientific questions upon which the professional witness is called to pass an opinion, and unless he has looked at the subject before, with a purpose to understand it, ----comprehending its extent, weight and relations, --he will find it to have suddenly assumed an importance he has not before suspected, just at a time when the discovery will add to his confusion and chagrin. It is better to make this discovery in the quiet stillness and security of solitary thought and study, than under the eye of a judge and the severe scrutiny of counsel. A man, whether learned or not, whether in court or out-of court, will talk clearly upon a subject he well understands, whether it is scientific or otherwise; but unless it is clear in his own mind, his account of it will be confused and unsatisfactory. No amount of windy pretension or technical verbosity, will help him out of the ridiculous position into which he has voluntarily and impudently placed himself, by pretending to do what he is wholly incompetent to accomplish. It is this profusion of disagreeable assurance, empty pretension, gassy reputation, wise...

Download or read book A Medicolegal Treatise on Malpractice, Medical Evidence, and Insanity; Comprising the Elements of Medical Jurisprudence written by John J. Elwell and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...are called '' doctors," they can appear upon the witness stand and decide those momentous questions to which we have referred. It will not be tolerated. However anxious an incompetent witness may be, to appear learned, and however hard he may labor to show it, he will ever find it uphill business to make the court and counsel believe that he is really so. To appear really learned, he must be able to make the subject upon which he gives an opinion, clear, and to give satisfactory reasons for his opinion. He must be not only a thinker himself, but must satisfy others that he is master of the subject Take almost any one of the important scientific questions upon which the professional witness is called to pass an opinion, and unless he has looked at the subject before, with a purpose to understand it, ----comprehending its extent, weight and relations, --he will find it to have suddenly assumed an importance he has not before suspected, just at a time when the discovery will add to his confusion and chagrin. It is better to make this discovery in the quiet stillness and security of solitary thought and study, than under the eye of a judge and the severe scrutiny of counsel. A man, whether learned or not, whether in court or out-of court, will talk clearly upon a subject he well understands, whether it is scientific or otherwise; but unless it is clear in his own mind, his account of it will be confused and unsatisfactory. No amount of windy pretension or technical verbosity, will help him out of the ridiculous position into which he has voluntarily and impudently placed himself, by pretending to do what he is wholly incompetent to accomplish. It is this profusion of disagreeable assurance, empty pretension, gassy reputation, wise...