In a malpractice matter, the standard of care is specialty-specific. The wrong specialty can sink an otherwise strong claim.
The standard of care is not general — it is what a reasonable physician in the same specialty would have done. An opinion from an adjacent field, however distinguished, is vulnerable to exclusion.
The same-specialty standard
A surgeon’s decisions are judged by a surgeon in the same field. Matching the reviewing physician’s specialty to the care at issue is the surest way to keep an opinion admissible and persuasive.
Sub-specialty precision
Within a specialty, sub-specialization matters. A general orthopedist and a fellowship-trained spine surgeon can reach different, defensible conclusions about the same operation.
Depth over breadth
We staff a small, specialty-matched panel under a medical-director gate and expand it to demonstrated demand — so the physician on your matter is the right one, not merely an available one.
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