Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 2007

Freed v. Geisinger Medical Center

Freed v. Geisinger Medical Center
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided August 2, 2007
593 Pa. 354; 930 A.2d 1249; 2007 Pa. LEXIS 1570

Freed v. Geisinger Medical Center

Opinion of the Court

*355 ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 2nd day of August, 2007, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by Petitioner, is:

By holding that a nurse is competent to render an opinion that a breach of the standard of care caused plaintiffs medical condition, did the Superior Court render a decision in direct conflict with Flanagan v. Labe, 547 Pa. 254, 690 A.2d 183 (1997), in which this Court held that a nurse is incompetent to render an opinion on causation in a medical malpractice action because it calls for a medical diagnosis which a nurse is statutorily prohibited from rendering?

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