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MACKEY v. GREENVIEW HOSPITAL, INC.

587 S.W.2d 249 (1979)

Edward L. MACKEY, Committee for Laura B. Clark, an incompetent, and Robert Edward Clark, Appellants, v. GREENVIEW HOSPITAL, INC., N. K. Kirby, L. Jack Scott, Richard F. Grise, and John P. Blackburn, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied May 11, 1979.

Discretionary Review Denied October 23, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward M. Post, Taustine, Post, Berman, Fineman & Kohn, Louisville, for appellants.

Maxey B. Harlin, William J. Parker, Harlin, Parker & Rudloff, Bowling Green, for appellees Greenview Hospital, Inc. and Hospital Corporation of America.

John T. Ballantine, Ogden, Robertson & Marshall, Louisville, Joseph R. Huddleston, Bowling Green, for appellees Richard F. Grise and John P. Blackburn.

William O. Guethlein, William P. Swain, Boehl, Stopher, Graves & Deindoerfer, Louisville, for appellees N. K. Kirby and L. Jack Scott, and Kirby & Scott, P.S.C.

Before PARK, VANCE and WINTERSHEIMER, JJ.

PARK, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for the defendants in a medical malpractice case. During the course of a breast biopsy, Laura Clark suffered cardiac arrest. Massive and irreversible brain damage ensued from the cardiac arrest. The plaintiffs-appellants are Mrs. Clark's committee and her husband who has asserted a claim for loss of consortium.1 The biopsy was performed at the defendant-appellee,...

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