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Massachusetts Court of Appeals: Instructional Videotape Not Learned Treatise

Loaded on June 15, 2008

Filed under: Medical, Evidentiary Ruling. Location: Maryland.

On March 15, 1990, a Massachusetts court of appeals ruled that an instructional medical videotape was not a learned treatise and was therefore inadmissible as evidence in a medical malpractice case.

Stanley G. Simmons, 69, was a patient of Dr. Peter M. Yurchak, a cardiologist. Simmons has previously been given ...

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