WATSON v. MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICES

No. 29A02-8709-CV-00354.

532 N.E.2d 1191 (1989)

Geraldine WATSON, As Administratrix of the Estate of James Watson, and Marshall Watson and Gregory Watson, by Geraldine Watson, Their Mother and Next Friend and Administratrix of the Estate of James Watson, Appellant (Plaintiff below), v. MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICES, Corp., Mary D. Bush, W. Larry Corbett, Methodist Hospital Radiologic Group, Inc., Kenneth Keller, George B. Pratt, and Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Inc., Appellees (Defendants below).

Court of Appeals of Indiana, Second District.

Rehearing Denied February 14, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon Dempsey, Sutherlin & Dempsey, Indianapolis, for appellant.

Mary Beth Claus, Jon D. Krahulik, Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman, Indianapolis, for George B. Pratt and Methodist Radiologic Group.

David S. Allen, Todd J. Kaiser, Locke Reynolds Boyd & Weisell, Indianapolis, for Mary D. Bush, M.D., Kenneth Keller, M.D., and Methodist Hosp. of Indiana.

Douglas V. Jessen, Statham, McCray, Thomas & Krohn, Evansville, for W. Larry Corbett, M.D. and Medical Emergency Services.


SULLIVAN, Judge.

Geraldine Watson appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of defendants.

We affirm.

Geraldine's medical malpractice complaint asserts negligent failure to diagnose and treat her husband's lung cancer. The operative facts are undisputed. In August of 1979 and in January of 1980, James Watson consulted the emergency room of Methodist Hospital complaining of cold symptoms. In January, the attending emergency resident, Mary Bush, took...

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