Court Opinion

ID: 9574490
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:05:22.682997+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:44:37.627794
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SACKETT, Judge
(dissenting).
I, too, dissent. The plaintiff sought to admit testimony of Rita Bray Bennett that physicians uniformly hold presurgical conferences with patients.
Rita Bray Bennett is a licensed registered nurse. She graduated from the University of Iowa in 1986, and worked until 1989 at the University of Iowa Hospital and Climes. She worked two years in the general pediatric unit with surgical, neurological, urology and hematology patients. In her last year at the University of Iowa, she worked in a unit specializing in hematology, oncology and renal problems. Rita went to Chicago in 1989 and started as a registry nurse with a new agency and worked as needed as a registered nurse in a variety of hospitals, including Northwestern Memorial, Rush-Presbyterian Medical Center and Ravenswood and Swedish Covenant community hospitals on a variety of floors. She currently is employed at the University of Chicago Medical Center in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Rita was asked what observations she had made during her hospital experiences. Her proffered testimony was relevant to the issues in this ease and she was clearly competent to testify as to her observations.