Legal Opinion
Hamil v. Bashline
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 5, 1978No. 97PublishedCited by 512 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
POMEROY, Justice.
The present appeal involves the degree of certainty required of expert medical testimony to establish, in a medical malpractice case, the causal relation between the harm suffered by a plaintiff-patient and the alleged negligence of a doctor or hospital in failing properly to diagnose and treat the plaintiff’s condition in a manner which might have prevented the harm. We believe that such causation may be founded upon expert opinion testimony to the effect that defendant failed to exercise reasonable care in performing an undertaking to render services to…
2Cases cited53 opinions
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- Whitner v. LojeskiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1970
- Majors v. Brodhead HotelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
- Dicky D. Voegeli and Sharon Voegeli v. Harvard R. Lewis and Methodist Hospital, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1977
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3Cited by512 opinions
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