CORBET v. McKINNEY

No. 73817.

980 S.W.2d 166 (1998)

Rebecca CORBET and Timothy Corbet, Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. John W. McKINNEY, M.D., Defendant/Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three.

November 10, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas P. Dowd, James M. Dowd, Dowd & Dowd, P.C., St. Louis, for appellants.

Bernard C. Brinker, Gary P. Paul, Brinker & Doyen, L.L.P., St. Louis, for respondent.


CRANE, Judge.

Plaintiffs, an emergency room patient and her spouse, filed this medical malpractice action against defendant physician alleging that defendant's failure to diagnose patient caused her to suffer permanent deafness in her right ear. Defendant moved for summary judgment on the grounds that he did not owe patient a duty of care because the telephone conversation in which patient's treating physician described...

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