Medical malpractice can increase physician salary in USA! Sounds paradoxical ? Not when you realize that in a medical malpractice case, physicians are usually called upon to testify as expert witnesses or as case consultants.
I have been taking a class on Health Law, which opened out a whole new fascinating world to me. Indeed, there exist firms that "hire out" physicians to defend a case. It does not have to be medical malpractice all the time, criminal cases too might need a doc's opinion.
