NANTICOKE MEMORIAL HOSP., INC. v. UHDE


498 A.2d 1071 (1985)

NANTICOKE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., a Delaware corporation, and Hassan G. Ramachandra, M.D., Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Martha Lee UHDE, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: September 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane R. Roth (argued), of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for appellants.

Harold Schmittinger (argued), Catherine T. Hickey, and Charles Whitehurst of Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, for appellee.

Before HORSEY, MOORE and CHRISTIE, JJ.


CHRISTIE, Justice.

This case arises from a wrongful death claim filed by Martha Lee Uhde, the appellee, against Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Inc., a Delaware corporation, (the hospital), and Hassan G. Ramachandra, M.D., (the doctor), appellants, on account of the death of appellee's husband from what the jury found to have been a heart attack. The death occurred less than two hours after the doctor had discharged the patient from the hospital emergency room with a...

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