Consultants needed

[sandman1]

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Members do not see this ad.

I am looking for physicians, surgeons, and forensic specialists who would like to help be a part of our organization. You will be given the title of "Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee," that you may add to your c.v.

Your time-effort will be very minimal but your ability to consult by phone with the organization will help many disadvantaged people and would be greatly appreciated.

Please contact me if you are interested.


G. Wright, MD
The Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee (Chair)
The Arizona Chapter of the Innocence Project/ The Justice Project

[email protected]

 

[Milo]

There is no G. Wright, MD with an active medical license in Arizona. There is, however, a PA by the name of G. Wright.

Certainly makes one wonder.

 

[Seaglass]

Certainly does.

 

[axm397]

Are surgeons not physicians? 😛

 

[southerndoc]

Ever think this could be a resident?

I have an MD, but no license since I'm a resident; therefore, I'm not listed in any CT databases.

 

[Milo]

1) Residents are listed in the Arizona database, so that's not it.

2) There is a general surgeon by the name of G. Wright. His Arizona licensed was canceled, home address for him is SLC, Ut.

How 'bout a lil more info G-Dog?

 

[gtb]

No clue if this is the organization, but I google searched innocence-project (in his signature) and came up with:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/

 

[sandman1]

Thanks for your interest in the project. My particular work has not been involving patient care, and has been devoted mainly to the project and other medico-legal work. This organization has been using volunteers such as local attorneys and law students to research cases in assistance of individuals who have been wrongfully convicted.

The Arizona Chapter has also been able to assist in compassionate relief for several elderly individuals with serious or terminal medical conditions. There is a need for medical professionals to assist as volunteer consultants to the attorneys and law students working on these cases. I am organizing and chairing this sub-committee. You do not need to be board-certified or even board-eligible; a working-knowledge of science and medicine is what is really needed. If it is decided, through consultation, that there is merit to these cases, then an expert may be retained by the project for further work. I wish I could tell you that this position pays. It does not. Like other volunteer work, payment for work on this project is through gratification alone.

If you still have an interest, after what I have described, please email me and we can speak further.

Thank you all for your time and attention.

http://www.aacj.org/The_justice_project.htm

 

[Milo]

So, you're not a licensed physician?

 

[docB]

They're looking for docs to act as expert witnesses for free to help spring rapists and murderers. Apparently there's a lot of gratification in this.

 

[Milo]

They're looking for docs to act as expert witnesses for free to help spring rapists and murderers. Apparently there's a lot of gratification in this.

Certainly looks that way. Anyone know of organizations needing expert witnesses to keep people in jail?

 

[Idiopathic]

In the group's defense, it doesn say 'wrongfully convicted' which would imply innocence in some cases.

 

[sandman1]

In the group's defense, it doesn say 'wrongfully convicted' which would imply innocence in some cases.

I understand the trepidation some may have to assisting a cause associated with persons who have been accused of, or convicted of, a crime. And, the prosecutors do indeed have experts. If I may, please allow me to post a few links to help illustrate some cases:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2005-04-21/news/feature.html

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05211/546262.stm

Again, any assistance would be appreciated.

 

[docB]

Someone on this board has a signature that notes "The plural of anectdote is not data."

 

[sandman1]

Someone on this board has a signature that notes "The plural of anectdote is not data."

Good point. But it's a bad thing if you or someone close to you was an "anectdote" in these cases. And there are many of them.

Additionally, there are a few other quotes one may find applicable, and of interest:

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
-William Blackstone

First they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
-Pastor Martin Niemoller, Nazi Germany, circa 1945

....if you have no interest in helping the project, I understand. It's not for everyone.

 

[docB]

Sorry for the misspelling. That’s what I get for trying to post while running a busy ER filled with crime victims. You played the “what if it happened to your family” card. Well what if your family has been victimized by a violent criminal? That kind of emotional ploy can go both ways.

In terms of the Neimoller passage I really wouldn’t compare our justice system to the Nazis. However it’s certainly not unusual for fringe groups to bandy about the Nazi label more and more these days.

Ultimately this is about groups that hold a deep and contemptuous attitude toward the justice system (an attitude with which I don’t disagree). The way they are fighting is by trying to overturn convictions. In this instance they are soliciting med students and residents to be volunteers for that cause. Do what you want but know what you’re doing.

 

[axm397]

So how can you be an expert witness if you don't have to be licensed, or even board eligible? What kind of medical knowledge is necessary? It would be hard to discern if someone has a "serious or terminal medical condition" without some kind of experience working with that type of patient population. Even taking cases like the Schiavo case, you would have to be either a Neurologist, a palliative care specialist, a physiatrist specializing in brain injury, or some other type of specialist familiar with that condition...

 

[Thrombus]

lol yet another honest trial lawyer

just what we need, more rapists, perverts, etc. etc on the street

these crooked trial lawyers along with the ACLU are bringing this country down

seems like every other day i see a child raped, tortured, macerated because of trash like you

i got 3 words for you

GET LOS T

 

[sandman1]

Sorry for the misspelling. That’s what I get for trying to post while running a busy ER filled with crime victims. You played the “what if it happened to your family” card. Well what if your family has been victimized by a violent criminal? That kind of emotional ploy can go both ways.

In terms of the Neimoller passage I really wouldn’t compare our justice system to the Nazis. However it’s certainly not unusual for fringe groups to bandy about the Nazi label more and more these days.

Ultimately this is about groups that hold a deep and contemptuous attitude toward the justice system (an attitude with which I don’t disagree). The way they are fighting is by trying to overturn convictions. In this instance they are soliciting med students and residents to be volunteers for that cause. Do what you want but know what you’re doing.

I do feel compelled to answer your points of contention, and I will do my best to accomplish this:

I appreciate your position; however, there seems to be some confusion. The project's work is not to get guilty individuals "off the hook." The project is to help those who have conclusively been wrongfully convicted. Each and every case is examined extensively prior to undertaking any pro-active posture. So far, 150 (+) folks have been found to have been wrongfully convicted in the US, and that number is growing daily. This is a problem. There may indeed be a problem with guilty folks "dodging the bullet" (so to speak), and may be a worthy topic..... but that's not what this is about.

 

[Doc_Thks_JC]

This is the worst show of legal propriety I have ever seen. You are going to ask for help on a medical student doctor forum for experts in cases that seem shoddy at best. This is so inexplicable. If you need experts then seek them out in a professional basis and then offer payment. And if you truly have innocent people that have been found guilty then I am sure you can find professional physicians with board certification that would offer their services pro bono instead of this poor taste effort at getting young residents or interns to help you. You cannot say we want experts but they don't have to be board certified or even eligible but we will take their medical knowledge anyway. Anyone that thinks this is a legitimate opportunity you should take a long diligent look at this. You may be destroying your future opportunities as a physician by doing this. I would advise against any such action until you had something in clear writing explaining the responsibilities, requirements, and potential liability toward oneself.
I also ask that some of the forum mediators take a look at this thread and the poster and seek some way to determine the legitamicy of this. Excuse my language but I think this is "poppy cock."

 

[Ross434]

The legitimacy of this thing is questionable, but what's with all the concerns about rapists and murderers. Projects like these are meant to free innocent people, not guilty ones.