CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Expert Testimony: Qualifications
.........Experts Found Qualified-Examples
............Medical Malpractice
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Expert who had not practiced medicine at time of alleged malpractice competent to testify.

While medical expert must be competent, rules of qualification have been relaxed; evidence of standard from related specialties and in similar locales permitted.

Trial ct. abused its discretion in sustaining D's locality objection to P's Mexican expert witness, a qualified expert in the relevant field.

Expert medical witness may be competent, even if does not have same specialty as D; board certification not necessarily prerequisite.

Physician who has not performed same operation may still qualify as expert in malpractice action relating to it.