TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 20, 2020

The Tennessee Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision today, held that a doctor who was permitted to practice medicine in Tennessee without a license under a statutory exemption does not meet the requirements to testify as an expert witness in a lawsuit against another doctor. The decision came in a wrongful death case against a cardiologist and his medical group. The doctor chosen to be an expert witness by the plaintiff did not have a license but was participating in a fellowship program at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Tennessee law allows doctors to practice without a license for the limited purpose of training in such a program.