HOLBROOK v. FOKES

A90A0528.

195 Ga. App. 418 (1990)

393 S.E.2d 718

HOLBROOK v. FOKES et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cook & Palmour, Bobby Lee Cook, Wade C. Hoyt III, for appellant.

K. Marc Barre, Jr., Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler, Roger Mills, for appellees.


BIRDSONG, Judge.

Arthur Holbrook appeals from a defendants' verdict in this medical malpractice case. His sole enumeration of error below is that the trial court committed fatal error in giving this so-called "hindsight" charge to the jury: "I further charge you that in a medical malpractice action, a defendant cannot be found negligent on the basis of an assessment of the patient's condition which only later or in hindsight prove[s] to be correct so long as the initial...

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