Eleventh Circuit· 12/8/2004

Roderic R. McDowell v. Pernell Brown

Citations

392 F.3d 1283
2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 25183
2004 WL 2809309

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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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Judges: Edmondson, Fay, Corrigan

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