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Cardiologist does not equal surgeon as expert witness on heart bypass claim

Because his specialty didn't involve surgery, an interventional cardiologist wasn't qualified to testify on whether cardiac surgeons botched a patient's bypass operation, the North Carolina Appeals Court has ruled. The doctor, who performed invasive heart procedures similar to cardiac surgery, was not qualified to say whether the defendants had misidentified the coronary arteries that needed ...

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