Johnson v. Riverdale Anesthesia Associates

Sears, Presiding Justice.

Certiorari was granted in this medical malpractice action in order to consider the Court of Appeals’ ruling forbidding the plaintiff from cross-examining the defendants’ expert witness as to how he personally would have treated the plaintiffs’ decedent. We conclude that because the standard of care in medical malpractice cases is that which is employed by the medical profession generally, and not what one individual physician would do under the same or similar circumstances, how a testifying medical expert personally would have treated a plaintiff or a plaintiff’s…