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PROFFITT v. BARTOLO

Docket No. 84840.

162 Mich. App. 35 (1987)

412 N.W.2d 232

PROFFITT v. BARTOLO

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 3, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael L. Pitt, for plaintiffs.

Weipert, Morr & Weipert (by James E. Morr), for defendants.

Before: DANHOF, C.J., and SHEPHERD and W.A. PORTER, JJ.

SHEPHERD, J.

Plaintiffs appeal from a grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants in this medical malpractice action. This case requires us to consider again the liability of a physician for both "wrongful birth" and "wrongful life." Specifically, we are concerned here with whether a physician is liable to both the parents and a child when the latter suffers from birth defects caused by the failure to diagnose an...

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