McKELLIPS v. SAINT FRANCIS HOSP., INC.

No. 66636.

741 P.2d 467 (1987)

Gretta M. McKELLIPS, Nelrose Margaret Palenske, David McKellips, and Paul Mark McKellips, Appellants, v. SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL, INC., Emergency Care, Inc., and George B. Caldwell, M.D., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

July 21, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Briggs, Patterson, Eaton & Berg by Dale J. Briggs and Steven J. Berg, Tulsa, for appellants.

T.J. Sinclair, General Counsel, Saint Francis Hosp., Inc., and Jones, Givens, Gotcher, Doyle & Bogan, Inc. by Deryl L. Gotcher and Joan Godlove, Tulsa, for appellee Saint Francis Hosp., Inc.

Best, Sharp, Thomas, Glass & Atkinson by Joseph A. Sharp and Patricia K. Lamb, Tulsa, for appellees Emergency Care, Inc. and George B. Caldwell, M.D.


HODGES, Justice.

On June 3, 1986, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit certified the following two questions of law to this Court pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S. 1981 § 1602:

I. In a medical malpractice action under Oklahoma law, absent evidence that the patient more likely than not would have survived with proper treatment, may a plaintiff establish...

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