Barhamsville Health Care Lawyer, Virginia

... In this appeal of a judgment in favor of a defendant in a medical negligence case, we consider whether the plaintiff was required to present expert testimony to establish that the defendant health care provider breached the applicable standards of care by placing the plaintiff in a ...

... Second, Joseph asserts that the court erred in failing to find that Dr. Solos-Kountouris undertook to provide health care to him by advising about genetic testing. ... at 633, 239 SE2d at 105; cf. Gray v. INOVA Health Care Servs., 257 Va. ...

... Va. 645, 653, 222 SE2d 783, 789 (1976). Exceptions to this rule exist only in "those rare cases in which a health care provider's act or omission is clearly negligent within the common knowledge of laymen." Raines, 231 Va. at ...