de PÉREZ v. HOSPITAL del MAESTRO

Nos. 89-2018, 89-2086.

910 F.2d 1004 (1990)

Doris Velez VDA. de PÉREZ, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. HOSPITAL del MAESTRO, et al., Defendants, Appellees. Appeal of Dr. Carmen de LEÓN, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Rive-Rivera, with whom Vargas & Rive was on brief for appellant.

David Efron, with whom Antonio J. Amadeo-Murga was on brief for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, ROSENN, Senior Circuit Judge, and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.


BREYER, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs in this case, the wife and children of Reynaldo Pérez, originally sued the Hospital del Maestro and two doctors who worked there, claiming that the Hospital and doctors negligently caused Pérez's death. They said (without dispute) that Pérez walked into the emergency room of the Hospital del Maestro, two hours after having begun to suffer chest pains. The hospital emergency room doctor found that he had had a heart...

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