Maloney v. Wake Hospital Systems, Inc.

WELLS, Judge.

Plaintiff has made numerous assignments of error regarding the trial court’s exclusion of evidence, allegedly prejudicial remarks in the presence of the jury, charge to the jury, failure to require the reading of a portion of the deposition of one of defendant’s witnesses, and precluding plaintiff from showing an exhibit to the jury during plaintiff’s closing argument.

The principal question we determine in this appeal is whether an expert who is not a medical doctor may give expert opinion testimony as to the cause of a physical injury.

Plaintiff called as her first expert witness…