Baylor College of Medicine v. Pokluda

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• providing that expert’s qualifications must appear in his report or curriculum vitae and cannot be inferred
• holding “a fair summary is 11 something less than a full statement of the applicable standard of care and how it was breached [and] need only set out what care was expected but not given”
• stating there is no basis for “the proposition that a surgeon must have performed exactly the same surgery as the defendant surgeon in order to render an expert opinion”
• “We have found no authority for the proposition that a surgeon must have performed exactly the same surgery as the defendant physician in order to render an expert opinion.”
• ―We have found no authority for the proposition that a surgeon must have performed exactly the same surgery as the defendant physician in order to render an expert opinion.‖
• “The test is whether the report and curriculum vitae establish the witness’s knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education regarding the specific issue before the court that would qualify the expert to give an opinion on that particular subject.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).