GRANELAS v. CHARLOTTE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER

No. C-C-87-279-M.

677 F.Supp. 1336 (1988)

Pedro GRANELAS, as Personal Representative and Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Caridad Gonzales Granelas, deceased, Plaintiff, v. CHARLOTTE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER; the Sanger Clinic, P.A.; Samuel H. Zimmern, M.D., and Joseph W. Cook, M.D., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

February 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Crabtree, Charlotte, N.C., for plaintiff.

John J. Golding, Golding, Crews, Meekins & Gordon, and Mark C. Kurdys, Hedrick, Eatman, Gardner & Kincheloe, Charlotte, N.C., for defendants.


McMILLAN, District Judge.

Defendants have moved for a postponement because of current publicity about an unfortunate event a week or so ago, in which two heart patients of the Sanger Clinic died following surgery at Charlotte Memorial Hospital, reportedly because of a mistake by the hospital pharmacy in the labeling of a fluid used in the procedure.

The case has received much newspaper, radio and television coverage.

Counsel for the plaintiff yielded...

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