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· 6/27/1989

Reimbursement for Detail of Judge Advocate General Corps Personnel to a United States Attorney's Office

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  • holding that expert report adequately linked alleged breach of standard of care to a delay in diagnosis and ultimate injury
  • holding that with respect to causation, our “role is to determine whether the expert has explained how the negligent conduct caused the injury”
  • holding that expert report satisfied causation requirement by directly linking nurses’ failure to properly document patient’s medical history to patient’s delayed treatment and subsequent injury
  • holding that with respect to causation, our “role is to determine whether the expert has explained how the negligent conduct caused the injury”
  • holding that causation element “requires that the expert explain ‘how and why’ the alleged negligence caused the injury in question”
  • concluding that an expert’s report adequately linked his conclusion with the underlying facts where the report drew a line directly from a failure to properly document pain to a delay in diagnosis and proper treatment to the ultimate injury

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