Avret v. McCormick

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• explaining that, based on education and experience, a nurse was qualified to offer standard-of-care testimony concerning an injection that a physician allegedly negligently administered
• explaining that, based on education and experience, a nurse was qualified to offer standard-of-care testimony concerning an injection that a physician allegedly negligently administered
• nurse competent to testify in medical malpractice action against physician as to standard of care in keeping sterile a needle used to draw blood
• a nurse was competent to testify in a medical malpractice action against a physician as to the standard of care in keeping sterile a needle used to draw blood
• a nurse was competent to testify in a medical malpractice action against a physician as to the standard of care in keeping sterile a needle used to draw blood
• “Medical experts are persons possessing technical and peculiar knowledge, and any person learned in medical or physiological matters[, including a nurse,] is qualified to testify as an expert thereon, even though he is not a medical practitioner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).