GOODWIN v. HARRISON

No. 89-76.

780 S.W.2d 518 (1989)

300 Ark. 474

Mary Helen Bass GOODWIN and William Carl Goodwin, Jr., Appellants, v. William HARRISON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

November 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whetstone & Whetstone, Bernard Whetstone, Bob Davidson, Little Rock, for appellant.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, Phillip Malcom, H. Charles Gschwend, Jr., Guy Alton Wade, Little Rock, for appellee.


DUDLEY, Justice.

The appellant, Mary Bass Goodwin, filed this medical malpractice suit against appellee, William Harrison, an obstetrician and gynecologist. She joined Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation as a defendant. She settled her claim against Ortho and went to trial only against appellee. She contended that (1) he prescribed birth control pills for her without informing her of the risks involved, and (2) that he failed, upon a second visit, to diagnose the fact...

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