Montgomery v. South Philadelphia Medical Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that, to be admissible, the opinion of an expert witness must be rendered within a reasonable degree of medical certainty
• requiring physician expert testimony to be rendered within reasonable degree of medical certainty
• allowing a physician to testify regarding a breach of duty by a physician’s assistant, because “[k]nowledge as to the treatment and care of patients which may be possessed by a physician’s assistant is also knowledge generally possessed by a medical doctor.”
• because a jury may not reach its verdict on mere speculation, the trial court may enter nonsuit if plaintiff has failed to produce sufficient evidence to meet her burden of proof
• physi-cian may testify about the breach of a duty by a physician’s assistant since knowledge about the care and treatment of patients which may be possessed by a physician’s assistant is also knowledge generally possessed by a medical doctor
• when the medical expert demonstrates, with a reasonable degree of medical certainty, that a defendant’s conduct increased the risk of the harm actually sustained, it is then up to a jury to decide whether that conduct was a substantial factor in bringing about the harm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).