5/29/2003· Expert Witnessing
Avoiding Ipse Dixit Mislabeling: Post-Daubert Approaches To Expert Clinical Opinions
By: Harold Bursztajn, MD and Thomas G. Gutheil, MD
Recent Supreme Court decisions emphasize the need to regulate the admissibility of expert testimony by means of standards that require opinions going beyond ipse dixit; that is, that are based on more than the fact that the expert "said it him/herself