{"id":3254,"date":"2016-10-31T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2016-10-31T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:24:27","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-order-barring-undisclosed-expert-opinion-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-order-barring-undisclosed-expert-opinion-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Order Barring Undisclosed Expert Opinion Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This case arises out of an appeal taken after the Circuit Court of Cook County judge entered judgment on the verdict in favor of Dr. John Pantano and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sublung.com\/content\/\">Suburban Lung Associates, S.C.<\/a> in a medical malpractice action. The lawsuit, brought by the special administrator of the Estate of Viola Morrisroe, claimed that her death occurred after a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/bronchoscopy\/article.htm\">bronchoscopy<\/a> during which biopsies were performed by Dr. Pantano. It was asserted that the trial judge was in error for (1) barring Morrisroe\u2019s expert from utilizing two CT scans during his testimony to demonstrate that the size of a mass in her lung had not increased in size; and (2) sustaining defense counsel\u2019s objections to certain statements in plaintiff\u2019s counsel\u2019s closing argument relating to informed consent claim. <\/p>\n<p>In 1999, Morrisroe was diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysymbicort.com\/copd.html?source=SYM_C_C_331&#038;WT.mc_id=SYM_C_C_331&#038;umedium=paidsearch&#038;uadpub=bing&#038;ucampaign=copd%20-%20condition&#038;ucreative=copd%20-%20condition&#038;uplace=chronic%20obstructive%20pulmonary%20disease\">chronic obstructive pulmonary disease<\/a> (COPD) and emphysema by pulmonologist Dr. Edward Diamond who was the president of Suburban Lung Associates, S.C. Her medical condition was monitored by Dr. Diamond and, in 2006, she began obtaining routine CT scans. In February 2009, a CT scan of her lungs indicated a new mass had formed in the upper right lobe.  Dr. Diamond ordered further testing in the form of a PET scan. The PET scan indicated that, while unlikely, cancer could not be ruled out. Dr. Diamond discussed the results of the scans with her and recommended that another CT scan be performed in four months.  <\/p>\n<p>By 2009, Dr. Diamond\u2019s examinations found that Morrisroe\u2019s lung function had significantly decreased. While her lung function was at 40% in the beginning of the year, by the summer her lung function was only 26%, prompting Dr. Diamond to downgrade her COPD from \u201csevere\u201d to \u201cvery severe.\u201d<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-order-barring-undisclosed-expert-opinion-testimony\/#more-3254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This case arises out of an appeal taken after the Circuit Court of Cook County judge entered judgment on the verdict in favor of Dr. John Pantano and Suburban Lung Associates, S.C. in a medical malpractice action. The lawsuit, brought by the special administrator of the Estate of Viola Morrisroe, claimed that her death occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radiology-errors","category-surgical-errors","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Order Barring Undisclosed Expert Opinion Testimony &#8212; 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