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ASUNCION v. COLUMBIA HOSP. FOR WOMEN

No. 85-628.

514 A.2d 1187 (1986)

Amelia B. ASUNCION, Appellant, v. COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 17, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Grad, with whom Bernard J. DiMuro, Alexandria, Va., was on brief, for appellant.

Richard W. Boone, with whom Vicki J. Hunt, Washington, D.C., was on brief, for appellees.

Before FERREN, TERRY and ROGERS, Associate Judges.

FERREN, Associate Judge:

In this medical malpractice action, appellant alleges she suffered emotional distress, but no physical harm, when she saw passing from her vagina a bloody gauze pad which appellees, her doctors, had negligently failed to remove promptly after child birth. The trial court granted summary judgment because, in this jurisdiction, there is no recovery for negligent infliction of emotional distress, absent...

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