AVRET v. McCORMICK

36302.

246 Ga. 401 (1980)

271 S.E.2d 832

AVRET v. McCORMICK.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney F. Wheeler, Robert G. Tanner, for appellant.

Paul S. Weiner, for appellee.


UNDERCOFLER, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to determine if, in a medical malpractice suit against a physician, a nurse duly graduated from schools of nursing and licensed in this state and who has drawn blood and given intravenous injections in numbers exceeding two thousand, is qualified to testify as an expert witness as to standards of care in keeping sterile a needle used to draw blood from a patient.

We find the Court of Appeals correctly...

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