Tappe Ex Rel. Tappe v. Iowa Methodist Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that \captain of the ship\ is not in accord with modern practice and refusing to adopt it
• noting that \captain of the ship\ is not in accord with modern practice and refusing to adopt it
• finding reversal was not justified because the district court’s wrongful exclusion of expert testimony was harmless
• finding reversal was not justified in a medical malpractice case because the district court’s wrongful exclusion of expert testimony was harmless
• avoiding the inference of negligence without proof in a res ipsa theory as “while physicians control their surgical instruments and medicine, 35 they do not control the physical condition and reactions of their patients”
• res ipsa loquitur cannot apply when all experts agree that stroke occurs in fixed percentage of all bypass surgeries even in absence of negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).