Last month I completed a series of three articles that addressed certain common ankle injuries as well as some common foot injuries. This month I am beginning a series of articles that will address hand injuries.
Generally speaking, the appropriate expert witness in a hand injury case will be an orthopedic surgeon, preferably an orthopedic surgeon with fellowship training on the hand. The hand is a very specialized field and most orthopedic surgeons do not perform surgery on the hand unless they have hand-specific fellowship training. Of course, if a generalized orthopedic surgeon is on-call in a hospital setting and a traumatic hand injury arrives in the ER, the orthopedic surgeon should and does perform emergency hand surgery.
