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Question?  Can a nurse testify as an expert witness in a Medical Malpractice case in Pennsylvania?

This was the exact question posed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the case of  Freed v. Geisinger Medical Center (Pa. Sept. 2010).  At trial, a nurse had testified regarding the cause of a medical condition.  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court of Pennsylvania upheld this testimony but stated that the nurse must be competent and properly qualified.  The court reiterated that the standard for qualifiaction of an expert witness in Pennsylvania is a liberal one.  

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A Columbia County jury awarded $1.5 million to the family of a patient whose pulmonary hemorrhage was allegedly misdiagnosed by a Bloomsburg doctor. The law firm of Dougherty, Leventhal & Price filed a medical malpractice suit on behalf of the family of Bruce Whitmire, 43, against the doctor, Donald A. Remaly, alleging he had mistakenly treated Whitmire for pneumonia.

“What killed him was that he was allowed to bleed into his lungs for three weeks,” said personal injury attorney Patrick Dougherty, who along with Attorney Brian Walsh represented the Whitmires. Whitmire, a truck driver, died on April 10, 2000.

A Columbia County jury found Remaly negligent in his care of Whitmire. It awarded $444,000 in damages to the victim’s family, $5,067 to cover the cost of Whitmire’s funeral and $1,050,933 to compensate for his suffering and mental and physical pain. This represents the largest jury verdict in the history of Columbia County.