Court Opinion

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Deen, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially.
While concurring fully with the majority opinion that, even assuming the appellant qualified as a medical expert in this case, the appellant’s affidavit was insufficient to rebut that of the defendant appellee, I also reject the appellant’s contention that he was an expert. Six thousand enemas, of course, is a staggering number of enemas. This averages out to about one enema every other day over a span of almost 30 years, or half of a lifetime. To challenge the expertise of someone who has given himself that many enemas would perhaps invoke a merited or invited response of “chutzpah.” Williams v. State, 126 Ga. App. 350 (190 SE2d 785) (1972).
Few may hesitate to consider the appellant an expert with regard to his knowledge and experience of self induced enema techniques, but the standard of care and evidence of that standard must be more general than the appellant’s personal familiarity and success with the enema procedure imposed only on himself. The appellant may have administered 6,000 enemas on himself, but the defendant’s technician had given approximately 3,000 enemas on different individuals. In this malpractice case, it is such multi-rectal experience or training that qualifies one as an expert competent to testify about the standard of care for that procedure generally and any breach of that standard.
*844Decided May 10, 1985
Rehearing denied May 23, 1985.
George E. Duncan, Jr., for appellant.
Lawrie E. Demorest, for appellees.