Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
Well, are the standards different between different types of different participants in the medical profession? Let’s say anesthesiologist or a surgeon or a diagnosis, an oncologist, are there different standards?
Mark Kaire – Medical Malpractice Attorney – Miami-Dade County, FL
So, the standards are always going to be the same because the standards are determined by that doctor’s specific specialty and we can’t ask an emergency room physician to act as an oncologist. So, he is held to a reasonable standard as an emergency room physician.
So, did that emergency room physician act in a reasonable, prudent manner when he was diagnosing a patient? We can’t ask of that emergency room physician to have the same standards or the same level of knowledge or care as an anesthesiologist, oncologist, orthopedist.
So yes, every practitioner, every medical specialty has a different standard of care. And in order to begin a medical malpractice case in the state of Florida, you need to have an affidavit from an expert in that particular field as the doctor that you’re bringing the case against to sign off and tell you that that doctor departed from the standard of care in that particular field.
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