GALLAGHER v. ENID REGIONAL HOSP.

No. 82893.

910 P.2d 984 (1995)

Michael GALLAGHER, Denise Gallagher in her capacity as mother and custodial parent of Michael John Patrick Gallagher, Amber Swiggart, Jessica Harrell and Lindsay Harrell, minors, Appellants, v. ENID REGIONAL HOSPITAL, Randall H. Best, and Ronnie B. Martin, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

December 12, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Craig Dodd, Enid, for Appellants.

Foliart, Huff, Ottaway & Caldwell by Glen D. Huff and David A. Branscum, Oklahoma City, for Appellee Enid Regional Hospital.

Feldman, Hall, Franden, Woodard & Farris by Joseph R. Farris, Jody R. Nathan and Douglass R. Elliott, Tulsa, for Appellee Randall H. Best.

Short Wiggins Margo & Adler by Benjamin J. Butts, Oklahoma City, for Appellee Ronnie B. Martin.


HODGES, Justice.

This matter concerns the date a medical malpractice action accrued. The facts of this case present a factual question to be determined on remand.

Michael Gallagher had become increasingly withdrawn from his friends and family. He had been preoccupied with suicide for several months when, on May 1, 1991, he tried to kill himself with a handgun. A neighbor interceded and took Gallagher to Enid Regional Hospital. He was diagnosed to be suffering...

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