COX v. HAWORTH

No. 99.

284 S.E.2d 322 (1981)

Avis Helen COX v. Chester C. HAWORTH, Jr., M. D. and High Point Memorial Hospital, Inc.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barefoot & White by Spencer W. White, Greensboro, for plaintiff-appellant.

Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan by Jodee Sparkman King, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee Chester C. Haworth, Jr., M. D.


CARLTON, Justice.

I.

Plaintiff filed suit on 15 July 1980 alleging that defendants had negligently performed a myelogram procedure on her husband, Alfred W. Cox, on or about 14 July 1978 and had performed the myelogram without his informed consent. She alleged that as a result of the myelogram procedure her husband developed spinal cord arachnoiditis that left him permanently disabled and sexually impotent. Because of his disability she has suffered the...

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