TABOR v. DOCTORS MEMORIAL HOSP.

No. 88 CA 1371.

554 So.2d 849 (1989)

James Fenton TABOR and his wife, Mary Florence Tabor, v. DOCTORS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, H.C.E. Health Services of Louisiana, Inc. d/b/a Doctors Memorial Hospital and Emergency Physicians Association.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Granted March 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Walters, Jr., Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs-appellants, Tabor, et al.

Donald S. Zuber, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee, Doctors Memorial Hosp.

W. Luther Wilson, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellees Dunn, et al.

Before COVINGTON, C.J., and WATKINS and SHORTESS, JJ.


WATKINS, Judge.

This is a medical malpractice action brought by the surviving parents of a young man who died in 1981 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound approximately one day after he was released from the emergency room of the defendant hospital, Doctors Memorial Hospital. The plaintiffs, James F. and Mary F. Tabor, also sued Dr. John Dunn, the doctor on duty at the time their son was taken to the hospital.

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