RAVI v. COATES

1930009, 1930038 and 1930039.

662 So.2d 218 (1995)

P.B. RAVI, M.D. v. Sylvia Marie COATES. Wilma VAUGHN and Cathy Foxworthy v. Sylvia Marie COATES. ATHENS-LIMESTONE HOSPITAL v. Sylvia Marie COATES.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Key of Eyster, Key, Tubb, Weaver & Roth, Decatur, for P.B. Ravi, M.D.

Mark W. Lee and Dorothy A. Powell of Parsons, Lee & Juliano, P.C., Birmingham, for Athens-Limestone Hosp. Ass'n, Cathy Foxworthy and Wilma Vaughn.

Jerry R. Barksdale, Athens, for Sylvia Marie Coates.


COOK, Justice.

This is an appeal from a $500,000 judgment based on a jury verdict in favor of Sylvia Marie Coats on her medical malpractice claim against Dr. P.B. Ravi, M.D.; the Health Care Authority of Athens and Limestone County d/b/a Athens-Limestone Hospital; and Cathy Foxworthy and Wilma Vaughn, nurse employees of the hospital. We affirm.

In February 1989, Dr. Ravi operated on Sylvia Marie Coates at Athens-Limestone Hospital to remove an ovarian cyst...

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