SMITH v. WALKER

No. 96 CA 2813.

708 So.2d 797 (1998)

Eric SMITH v. E. Wyman WALKER, M.D.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

February 20, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Upton, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff/appellee Eric Smith.

Donald Zuber, Baton Rouge, for defendant/appellant Edgar Wyman Walker, Jr., M.D.

Before WHIPPLE and KUHN, JJ., and CHIASSON, J. Pro Tem.


KUHN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Eric Smith, filed this suit for damages against Edgar Wyman Walker, Jr., M.D., a family medicine physician who treated Smith for back and hip injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Plaintiff alleged that: 1) following the accident, Walker treated him for approximately two months; 2) during that time and at Walker's direction, he underwent a CT scan, which revealed a herniated L4-5 disc; 3) although Walker examined him after the CT scan...

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