A Westmoreland County trial judge was wrong to instruct a jury on the “two schools of thought doctrine” in a trial against a doctor accused of performing unnecessary cardiac stent procedures, but the flawed instruction did not ultimately contribute to the defense verdict, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.

Sensenich v. Morcos is the bellwether case in the In re Westmoreland Hospital Cardiac Stent Litigation, which arises from allegedly unnecessary cardiac stenting procedures performed by Dr. Ehab Morcos and Dr. George BouSamra.