Day Ex Rel. Ostby v. McIlrath

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• holding testimony of a treating physician is not subject to discovery procedures under the Iowa rule governing discovery of experts, be cause the treating physician’s mental impressions and opinions were not “acquired or developed in anticipation of litigation or for trial”
• treating physician ordinarily focuses on “purely medical questions rather than on the sorts of partially legal questions which may become paramount in the context of a lawsuit”
• “[A] treating physician ordinarily focuses, while treating a patient, on purely medical questions rather than on the sorts of partially legal questions (such as causation or percentage of disability) which may become paramount in the context of a lawsuit.”
• “We believe a treating physician ordinarily focuses, while treating a patient, on purely medical questions rather than on the sorts of partially legal questions (such as causation or percentage of disability) which may become paramount in the context of a lawsuit.”

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