BRAVO v. SUMNER REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS


148 S.W.3d 357 (2003)

Brandon BRAVO, a minor, by his next friends and parents, Leonorilda Gamboa and Epifanio Bravo Hernandez; and Leonorilda Gamboa and Epifanio Bravo Hernandez, individually v. SUMNER REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC., d/b/a Sumner Regional Medical Center, v. Robert Dabney Phillips, M.D.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Western Section, at Nashville.

December 23, 2003.

Permission to Appeal Dismissed April 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Kay, Jr., John J. Griffin, and Joanna Thomson, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellants, Leonorilda Gamboa and Epifanio Bravo Hernandez, individually and as next friends and parents of Brandon Bravo.

Dixie W. Cooper and Lisa D. York, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellee, Robert Dabney Phillips, M.D.


Permission to Appeal Dismissed by Supreme Court April 5, 2004.

OPINION

HOLLY M. KIRBY, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which W. FRANK CRAWFORD, P.J., W.S., and ALAN E. HIGHERS, J., joined.

This is a medical malpractice case. The plaintiff was pregnant and came to the hospital to have labor induced for delivery of her baby. The defendant obstetrician-gynecologist had not previously treated...

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