CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Forensic Issues
.........Standard of Care
............Doctors: Emergency Room
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Standard of care for emergency room professional requires testimony of expert with specific emergency room experience.

5-year period set out in H&S 1799.110, for expert witness experience in ER, must be measured from date of alleged malpractice, not date of trial.

Specialist merely "on call" to ER not qualified to give expert testimony as ER physician under H&S Code.

Court properly refused to admit expert's testimony in medical negligence case where P failed to establish qualifications as emergency room expert.

Limitations on expert testimony in emergency room malpractice case; procedure to follow.