Richmond Hill Georgia Medical Negligence Personal injury lawyer

Richmond Hill Georgia Medical Negligence Personal injury lawyer

Hospital Negligence Serious personal injury in Chatham County GA

Hospital Negligence suits and expert witness

To maintain a medical malpractice action, the plaintiff should call a qualified expert witness to testify both that the doctor was negligent and that the physicians actions were the proximate cause of the plaintiffs alleged injuries. Negligence refers to the failure to use ordinary care; that is, the failure to do what a physician of ordinary prudence would have done in the similar conditions. Proximate cause is defined as the cause which, in a continuous and uninterrupted sequence, producesan event foreseeable by the doctor exercising the degree of care required of him or her.

A properly qualified expert must be
A physician practicing medicine at the time he or she provides testimony in the case or a doctor who was practicing medicine at the time of the care and treatment that is the basis of the claim; and
A doctor qualified on the basis of training or experience.
Practicing medicine refers to training residents or students at an accredited medical or osteopathic school and serving as a consulting physician. Factors considered in deciding whether an expert witness is qualified include
Is the expert board certified in a field relevant to the claim
Does the expert have significant training or experience in a field relevant to the claim
Is the expert practicing medicine and rendering medical services relevant to the claim
The physicians attorney may challenge both an experts qualifications and his or her ability to legally demonstrate negligence and proximate cause.

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