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Hospital Nurses And Tort Liability, Gabrielle G. Kinkela, Robert V. Kinkela
Hospital Nurses And Tort Liability, Gabrielle G. Kinkela, Robert V. Kinkela
Cleveland State Law Review
What factors have influenced the courts in the development of their current attitude toward hospitals? Are the emerging concepts reasonable, or are they indicia of a pendulum swinging too far in the direction of the patient? What are the consequences for the nurse? These are the questions to which the ensuing treatment of one aspect of tort liability is addressed.
Non-Resident Expert Testimony On Local Hospital Standards, Kent E. Baldauf
Non-Resident Expert Testimony On Local Hospital Standards, Kent E. Baldauf
Cleveland State Law Review
This issue deals with the question of whether a medical expert witness need be a resident of the particular community in order to testify as to local hospital standards in that community. Generally, in cases involving medical malpractice, the courts have held that the expert witness must have practiced in the "same" or "similar" locality as the defendant doctor in order that his testimony be held admissible to establish the standard of medical care against which the defendant is to be held.