How have experts been used in medical malpractice cases?

Connors, 769 F.Supp. at 585; see also Walker v. Rumer, 21 Ill.Dec. at 364, 381 N.E.2d at 691. Experts within a field share a common knowledge about whether a certain type of injury could only occur through negligence, just as average citizens can share a common knowledge about whether barrels of flour normally roll out of warehouse windows. See Byrne v. Boadle, 2 H. & C. 722, 159 Eng.Rep. 299 (1863). These experts can educate the jurors, essentially training them to be twelve new initiates into a different, higher level of common knowledge. The jurors can then determine for themselves whether the

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