Hubbard v. Sherman Hospital

In Hubbard v. Sherman Hospital, 292 Ill. App. 3d 148, 153, 685 N.E.2d 648, 226 Ill. Dec. 393 (1997) the pertinent appellate review concerned the disallowance of testimony by the plaintiff's expert that was critical of the defendant surgeon's "performance of the actual surgery." Hubbard, 292 Ill. App. 3d at 153. The Hubbard court agreed with the trial court that the plaintiff's expert was not qualified to testify against the emergency room surgeon. The Court noted that the plaintiff's expert "provided no information that he had ever actually performed an appendectomy himself or that he holds or held surgical privileges at any hospitals. Accordingly, the trial court properly precluded his testimony concerning surgery and related topics, such as the time of the surgery and presurgical testing." Hubbard, 292 Ill. App. 3d at 155.