Robert Baker v. University Physicians Healthcare

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “only physicians with comparable training and experience may provide expert testimony regarding whether the treating physician provided appropriate care”
• holding that a medical doctor who specialized in internal medicine, hematology, and oncology is not qualified to opine on the standard of care applicable to a medical doctor specializing in pediatric hematology
• discussing that the plaintiff still had a reasonable possibility of obtaining legal redress under the applicable statute
• stating that the abuse of discretion standard “equally applies to admissibility questions in summary judgment proceedings”
• “[T]he statute does not define the terms ‘specialist’ or ‘board certified,’ and 13 Arizona law does not otherwise provide general definitions for these terms.”
• “In medical malpractice cases, plaintiffs must show that a health care provider breached the appropriate standard of care and the breach resulted in injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).