Lustgarten did not actually state that the defendant had ‘falsified’ a medical record or use the terms ‘liar’ or ‘lying’ to describe the other physician or his conduct. [read post]

  Their usage is not an innocent diction error because diagnosis is almost never involved, and the usage attempts to suggest that the causal attribution is part of a process typically conducted by a treating physician, when in fact, the treating physician rarely determines the actual cause in the person. [read post]