80 Ill. App. 3d 98 - Chamness v. Odum’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

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1. “Defendant next asserts that [the expert’s] testimony must be deemed to have been inadequate to establish the relevant standard of care because he failed to specifically inform the jury at the outset of his opinion testimony what general standards he was familiar with in the chiropractic profession in Illinois. This assertion misconceives the function of the expert witness in establishing a professional standard of care. All that is necessary for the expert to establish is that there was a generally accepted medical standard of care or skill which entailed treatment or performance of a procedure in a manner different than that provided by the defendant. In the present case, a fair reading of [the expert’s] testimony is that it indicated that there was a generally accepted chiropractic standard of care when confronted with a patient with the plaintiffs symptoms to recognize that such a condition was not one for chiropractic manipulation but rather, one requiring a recommendation of rest or a referral to a neurosurgeon or orthopedic surgeon.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chambers v. Ingram