Primary Care & Urgent Care Expert Witness

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Gupta is a board-certified Family Medicine physician with over eight years of active clinical practice in primary care, urgent care, outpatient medicine, and ambulatory care settings. His experience includes diagnostic evaluation, clinical decision-making, triage assessment, emergency referral thresholds, escalation of care, care coordination, and continuity of care across a broad range of acute and chronic conditions, including assessment of how clinical decision-making, timing, and follow-up may have influenced patient outcomes. He provides expert analysis in matters involving standard of care, failure to diagnose, delay in diagnosis, misdiagnosis, improper triage, missed escalation of care, and inadequate follow-up in outpatient and urgent care environments, including evaluation of the clinical impact of these factors on patient outcomes. Frequently evaluated conditions include sepsis, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, stroke/TIA, pneumonia, gastrointestinal bleeding, appendicitis, heart failure, deep vein thrombosis, abdominal pain, chest pain, shortness of breath, neurologic complaints, infectious disease presentations, and outpatient emergencies. Dr. Gupta’s expertise includes medical merit screening, case viability review, medical record review, chart audits, documentation standards, diagnostic reasoning, clinical guidelines, evidence-based practice, medication management, drug–drug interactions, prescribing errors, and adverse drug events, including high-risk medications and polypharmacy. He routinely evaluates cases involving missed red-flag symptoms, failure to order appropriate testing or imaging, failure to refer to the emergency department, and breakdowns in communication or safety-netting. Additional areas of experience include cancer screening, chronic disease management (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease), obesity and weight-loss management including GLP-1–based therapies (Zepbound, Mounjaro, Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsus, tirzepatide, semaglutide), geriatric care, men’s health and testosterone therapy, non-obstetric women's health, occupational and industrial injuries, rural and underserved medicine, outpatient procedures and procedural complications, and physician supervision of physician assistants. Dr. Gupta provides clear, objective, and well-supported physician-level opinions for medical malpractice, personal injury, negligence, and clinical standard-of-care matters, including narrative reporting, deposition preparation, and testimony support, serving plaintiff and defense counsel nationwide. Professional Profile: linkedin.com/in/karanvirguptamd Updated CV and fee schedule available at www.doclawconsult.com