{"id":3391,"date":"2017-05-31T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2019-10-17T06:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:10:37","slug":"u-s-court-appeals-affirms-district-court-judges-order-barring-expert-testimony-physician-specializing-language-issues-related-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-affirms-district-court-judges-order-barring-expert-testimony-physician-specializing-language-issues-related-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms District Court Judge\u2019s Order Barring Expert Testimony of Physician Specializing in Language Issues Related to Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has held that an expert on language issues and healthcare could not testify that several healthcare providers had breached the standard of care in their treatment of a patient who had limited use of the English language.<\/p>\n<p>Dalip Basanti, who was a native of India, received treatment for back and shoulder pain from doctors at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saludclinic.org\">Salud Family Health Center<\/a> and the Platte Valley Medical Center. She later became paralyzed from the chest down and learned that she suffered from a benign endodermal cyst that had compressed her spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p>She sued the U.S. and others alleging liability for medical negligence. Basanti sought to admit the expert testimony of Dr. Glenn Flores, a physician specializing in language issues related to healthcare, who was to testify that the defendants had breached the standard of care that caused Basanti\u2019s injuries by choosing not to use interpretative services to communicate with her. Basanti had limited English language proficiency. The defendants moved to strike Dr. Flores\u2019s standard of care and causation opinions. The U.S. District Court judge granted that motion.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-affirms-district-court-judges-order-barring-expert-testimony-physician-specializing-language-issues-related-healthcare\/#more-3391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has held that an expert on language issues and healthcare could not testify that several healthcare providers had breached the standard of care in their treatment of a patient who had limited use of the English language. Dalip Basanti, who was a native of India, received [&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":[24,27,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experts","category-medical-malpractice","category-misdiagnosis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms District Court Judge\u2019s Order Barring Expert Testimony of Physician Specializing in Language Issues Related to Healthcare &#8212; 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