Table 2.

Comments by Medical Experts for the Actual Cases

Case	Expert Comments
Coronary artery disease	Plaintiff expert:  “I certainly would have referred him to a stress test or to a cardiologist.”
	Defense expert:  “Pain, the one that seemed to occur before he came in, seemed…even wild for atypical angina…I would think it would not be necessary to do a treadmill in every case of a mysterious kind of chest pain.”
Appendicitis	Plaintiff expert:  “36–48 hours of incorporating a good trial of antibiotics, [she] wasn't getting better, white count, temperature remains [I would have scoped].”
	Defense expert:  “Anybody looking at that record [before the 5th day of hospitalization] would have concluded that it was PID.”
Breast cancer	Plaintiff expert:  “It's…my opinion that by, I think, [September '92] you had sufficient soft findings to warrant biopsy…of that axillary lymph node.”
	Defense expert:  “Symptoms that come and go…are just almost always innocent…there are many things that will cause axillary adenopathy…[in September '92], the standard of care did not require subsequent examination.”