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Toraish v. Lee
No. 160495Supreme Court of Virginia
160495 Toraish v. Lee 04/13/2017 In a medical malpractice wrongful death action against an otolaryngologist, an opinion offered by defendant's expert witness, a pediatric geneticist, based on a "differential d…
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160495 Toraish v. Lee 04/13/2017 In a medical malpractice wrongful death action against an otolaryngologist, an opinion offered b…
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160495 Toraish v. Lee 04/13/2017 In a medical malpractice wrongful death action against an otolaryngologist, an opinion offered by defendant's expert witness, a pediatric geneticist, based on a "differential diagnosis" purporting to establish that the decedent died of a syndrome relating to genetic defects properly considered in the report by a physician who conducted an autopsy, but those conclusions did not exclude respiratory compromise as alleged by the plaintiff as a cause of death, and thus the witness' differential diagnosis was founded upon an assumption not established in the trial, and it was an abuse of discretion to permit the geneticist's testimony. A deposition of another phys…
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