Rodriguez v. Pino

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• determining that expert testimony should have been excluded where it was based on the legally erroneous conclusion that patient's extubation constituted a medical emergency allowing intubation without a competency assessment
• defining emergency as situation which “calls for immediate medical treatment and it is not feasible to obtain consent from one legally permitted to provide it” [emphasis in original]
• “It is clear, then, that [doctors’] opinions regarding Mrs. Pino’s competency amount to mere speculation. Expert testimony of this kind may not be given weight.”

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