Hamilton v. Kuligowski’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “after the decedent experienced pre-stroke symptoms. A jury trial commenced on April 30, 2002. On the fourth day of trial, plaintiff called her standard-of-care expert, Dr. Arnold Markowitz, to the witness stand. Dr. Markowitz testified that he was board-certified in internal medicine. He also asserted that he had additional subspecialty training in the area of infectious diseases and that he devoted the majority of his medical practice to that subspecialty of internal medicine. At the conclusion of voir dire by defendant Dr. Markowitz, defendant asked the trial court to”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hamilton v. Kuligowski

2. “was a more focused application of internal medicine, but internal medicine nonetheless. He repeatedly explained that his practice was still entirely within the ambit of internal medicine. Defendant makes much of Dr. Markowitz's testimony that an”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hamilton v. Kuligowski

3. “Defendant asserted that MCL 600.2169 requires an expert on standard of care to devote the majority of his active clinical practice in the same specialty and practice as the defendant physician. Defendant argued that he was a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hamilton v. Kuligowski