Roderic R. McDowell v. Pernell Brown

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• recognizing that a “physician need not be a specialist in the particular medical discipline to render expert testimony relating to that discipline”
• recognizing that “an expert opinion is inadmissible when the only connection between the conclusion and the existing data 1s the expert’s own assertions”
• recognizing that a “physician need not be a specialist in the particular medical discipline to render expert testimony relating to that discipline”
• concluding that an isolated incident did not establish 7 Even if Baptist Health is a private entity, the Court’s analysis and conclusion remains the same. a persistent or widespread practice
• concluding that “[t]he standard of care applicable to nurses is universal,” regardless of the setting where nursing is practiced, absent evidence to the contrary presented by the party moving to exclude the expert
• recognizing a trial judge “should meticulously focus on the expert’s principles and methodology, and not on the conclusions that they generate”

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