Categories: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Opinions

FREED v. GEISINGER MED. CENTER, 593 Pa. 354 (2007)

930 A.2d 1249

Rodger A. FREED, Respondent, GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER; and Healthsouth Corporation, formerly known as Healthsouth Rehabilitation Corporation, and Healthsouth of Nittany Valley, Inc., t/d/b/a Health-south Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital, Petitioners.

No. 3 MAL 2007.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
August 2, 2007.

Petition for Allowance of Appeal No. 3 MAL 2007 from the Order of the Superior Court.

Prior Report: Pa.Super., 910 A.2d 68.

Page 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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