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JOHNSON v. RIVERDALE ANESTHESIA ASSOCIATES

No. S01G1138.

563 S.E.2d 431 (2002)

275 Ga. 240

JOHNSON, et al. v. RIVERDALE ANESTHESIA ASSOCIATES, P.C. et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied June 7, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill & Bleiberg, Gary Hill, Atlanta, for appellants.

Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney, H. Andrew Owen, Jr., Amy Jo Kolczak, Atlanta, Evans & Evans, Larry K. Evans, Griffin, for appellees.

Love Willingham Peters Gilleland Monyak, Robert P. Monyak, Lucas W. Andrews, Doffermyre Shields Canfield Knowles, Kenneth S. Canfield, Atlanta, Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael, J. Vincent Cook, Athens, Henry, Spiegel, Fried & Milling, Philip C. Henry, Atlanta, Middleton, Mathis, Adams & Tate, Charles A. Mathis, Jr., Atlanta, Butler Wooten Overby Fryhofer Daugherty, Joel O. Wooten, Jr., Columbus, amici curiae.

SEARS, Presiding Justice.

Certiorari was granted in this medical malpractice action in order to consider the Court of Appeals' ruling forbidding the plaintiff from cross-examining the defendants' expert witness as to how he personally would have treated the plaintiffs' decedent. We conclude that because the standard of care in medical malpractice cases is that which is employed by the medical profession generally, and not what one individual physician would do under...

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