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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. England partially grants the United States’ motion to exclude a patient’s two expert witnesses in this medical malpractice lawsuit. The patient alleges he had a stroke after doctors failed to administer antibiotics testing positive for enterococcus faecalis before discharging her. One of the experts, a long-time professor, does not meet the requirements because the testimony fails to demonstrate that he has performed basic emergency medicine. The other expert internist and hospitalist has served at several facilities, making him acknowledgeable as an expert; he agrees the standard of care was breached when the patient was sent home instead of being admitted. So the motion to exclude the professor expert is granted and the internist and hospitalist expert is denied. Summary judgment is denied at this stage.