DUBOIS et al. v. BRANTLEY et al., 297 Ga. 575

Summary

HOLDINGS: [1]-In a medical malpractice case, the expert had an appropriate level of knowledge in performing the procedure to opine under O.C.G.A. § 24-7-702(c)(2)(A) that defendant was negligent when he inserted the primary trocar because, although plaintiff's expert witness in recent years had given up laparoscopic procedures to repair umbilical hernias, he still regularly performed numerous other laparoscopic procedures in the abdominal cavity, and as a part of those other procedures, the expert regularly inserted primary trocars like the one used by defendant; and defendant failed to show that he inserted the primary trocar by use of a technique or tool that was unfamiliar to the expert or was unlike the techniques and tools that the expert employed in his own practice.