Pon Kwock Eng v. Klein

¶1 It is the scope of a witness’s knowledge and not artificial classification by professional title that governs the threshold question of admissibility of expert medical testimony in a malpractice case. A practitioner of one school of medicine may testify regarding the practice in another school of medicine when the methods of treatment of the two are or should be the same. Because Dr. Vincent Quagliarello was knowledgeable as to the medical problem at issue, and the methods of treatment involved were not specialty-specific, we find he was qualified to testify. Therefore, summary judgment…