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WEXLER v. HECHT

928 A.2d 973 (2007)

Beverly WEXLER, Appellant v. Paul J. HECHT, M.D., and Donald W. Mazur, M.D., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 5, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee S. Bender, Philadelphia, for Beverly Wexler, appellant.

Clifford Alan Rieders, Rieders, Travis, Humphrey, Harris, Waters & Waffenschmidt, Williamsport, for amicus curiae, Pa. Trial Lawyers Ass'n.

Christine Renee Guiliano, Naulty, Scaricamazza & McDeevitt, L.L.C., Philadelphia, for Paul J. Hecht, M.D., and Donald W. Mazur, M.D., appellees.

Robert B. Hoffman, Wolf, Block, Schorr And Solis-Cohen, Harrisburg, for Pa. Medical Soc., appellee amicus curiae.

Beatrice O'Donnell, Helena I. Poch Ciechanowski, Duane Morris, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Donald Maron, D.P.M., et al., appellees amici curiae.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, BALDWIN and FITZGERALD, JJ.

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether, under the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act, a podiatrist is competent to testify as an expert witness concerning the applicable standard of care in a medical malpractice action advanced against an orthopedic surgeon.

The plaintiff, Beverly Wexler ("Appellant"), commenced the present action in 1999 against Paul J. Hecht, M.D., a medical doctor certified...

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