21. Can two experts come to different conclusions and both still be testifying properly for their medical specialty?

Yes. EMC is not evaluating expert medical testimony to determine whether the review panel “agrees” with the opinion of the expert. By example, two experts might agree that “excessive blood loss can cause cardiac complications”,  but differ on how much blood loss is “excessive” in a given case. The expert panel is charged to determine whether the proper standards of care for the specialty in this clinical situation were identified and applied and that they were given the proper clinical significance. Given that each of the physicians properly identified and evaluated the case according to the standards of their specialty, then differences of opinion regarding breeches of the standards of care is allowed without necessarily triggering a negative committee review.