MARTIN v. WENTWORTH-DOUGLASS HOSP.

No. 86-510.

130 N.H. 134 (1987)

PATRICIA A. MARTIN v. WENTWORTH-DOUGLASS HOSPITAL.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 4, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wescott, Millham & Dyer, of Laconia (Gary P. Westergren on the brief and orally), for the plaintiff.

McDonough & O'Shaughnessy P.A., of Manchester (William A. Grimes and Robert G. Whaland on the brief, and Mr. Whaland orally), for the defendant.


SOUTER, J.

In this action for negligence in drawing blood for laboratory testing, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Superior Court (Hollman, J.) granting the defendant's motion for nonsuit at the close of the plaintiff's case. We affirm.

In February, 1982, a lay technician known as a phlebotomist, employed by the defendant, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, drew a sample of blood from the right arm of the plaintiff, Patricia A. Martin....

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