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PAGE v. WILSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC.

No. 807SC336.

272 S.E.2d 8 (1980)

49 N.C. App. 533

Ruth D. PAGE, Administratrix of the Estate of Lucy Page Hogg v. WILSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., and Carolyn Coates and Jacqueline Simms Ward.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

November 18, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Biggs, Meadows, Batts, Etheridge & Winberry by Auley M. Crouch, III, Rocky Mount, for plaintiff-appellant.

Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan by Samuel G. Thompson and Jodee Sparkman King, Raleigh, for defendants-appellees.

ARNOLD, Judge.

Plaintiff contends that it was error for the trial court to exclude testimony of the expert witness, Nurse Pennington, regarding the standard of care in situations involving a patient's use of a bedpan, and in directing a verdict for defendants.

Nurse Pennington would have testified that placing the patient on a bedpan in a chair and leaving her unattended for periods of three to four minutes was a violation of the standard of nursing care in...

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