This discussion of medical-legal risk in colonoscopy is based on my experience as an expert witness as well as my understanding of current standard of care in colonoscopy performance. Standard of medical care is usually defined as how a provider of similar training would be expected to perform in a similar circumstance as that in the malpractice case.1 The standard of care in colonoscopy is not necessarily represented by highly expert performance since colonoscopy is quite operator dependent
DECEMBER 13, 2020