DRESDEN v. DETROIT MACOMB HOSP. CORP.

Docket Nos. 175469, 175477.

553 N.W.2d 387 (1996)

218 Mich. App. 292

Edmund DRESDEN, Personal Representative of the Estate of Lori Dresden, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DETROIT MACOMB HOSPITAL CORPORATION, d/b/a Macomb Hospital Center, also known as South Macomb Hospital, Raymond S. Kurtzman, M.D., Diagnostic Radiology Consultants, P.C., Otto, Kurtzman & Associates, P.C., and Dr. Marvin Gordon, Defendants-Appellees. Edmund DRESDEN, Personal Representative of the Estate of Lori Dresden, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY CONSULTANTS, P.C., Otto, Kurtzman & Associates, P.C., and Raymond S. Kurtzman, M.D., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided August 16, 1996, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication September 27, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho, P.C. by Sean F. Cox and Vahan C. Vanerian, Livonia, for plaintiff.

Kitch, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C. by Susan Healy Zitterman and John J. Ramar, Detroit, for defendant-appellee Detroit Macomb Hospital Corporation.

Kerr, Russell and Weber by Stephen D. McGraw and Joanne Geha Swanson, Detroit, for defendants-appellees Diagnostic Radiology Consultants, P.C. and Dr. Marvin Gordon.

O'Leary, O'Leary, Jacobs, Mattson, Perry & Mason, P.C. by John P. Jacobs, Southfield, for defendant-appellee Estate of Dr. Raymond Kurtzman.

Before TAYLOR, P.J., and FITZGERALD and P.D. HOUK, JJ.


TAYLOR, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff appeals as of right from orders granting summary disposition in favor of all defendants in two lower court cases that have been consolidated on appeal. We affirm.

Plaintiff's decedent, Lori Dresden, went to Detroit Macomb Hospital complaining of chest pain on March 24, 1989. Her chest x-ray was interpreted as normal, and she was discharged. Dresden died three days later. Plaintiff...

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