TY - JOUR T1 - Do juries listen to jury instructions? JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 565 LP - 570 VL - 25 IS - 4 AU - SH Berger Y1 - 1997/12/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/25/4/565.abstract N2 - The author reports the case in which he was sued for medical malpractice. A nonunanimous jury found in favor of the plaintiff. Interviews of two of the jurors revealed that the jury discounted the expert testimony on both sides, the evidence, and the jury instructions. The author, finding that the jury decided the case based upon it's perception of the physician's "bedside manner," concludes that juries expect psychiatrists to behave more like friendly family doctors than objective psychoanalysts. ER -