JOHNSON v. POHLMAN

No. 85705.

162 Ohio App.3d 240 (2005)

2005-Ohio-3554

JOHNSON, Admr. of the Estate of Adkins, Appellant, v. POHLMAN et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County.

Decided July 14, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Conway and A. Steven Dever, for appellant.

Tucker, Ellis & West, L.L.P., Irene C. Keyse-Walker, Rita A. Maimbourg, Tariq M. Naeem, and Edward E. Taber, for appellees Brad Pohlman, M.D., and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A., John P. O'Neil, and James O'Connor, for appellee Lawrence Stallings, M.D.

Hanna, Campbell & Powell, Gregory T. Rossi, and Rocco D. Potenza, for appellee Margaret Kobe, M.D.

Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A., and Christine S. Reid, for appellees Kevin Wietecha, D.O., and Northeast Ohio Endocrinology.


MICHAEL J. CORRIGAN, Judge.

{¶ 1} Paula Johnson, the executor of the estate of Paul Adkins, brought this medical-malpractice suit against several doctors involved in Adkins's medical treatment before his death. To state the case in very general terms, the estate alleged that doctors misdiagnosed Adkins with adrenal lymphoma (which is usually fatal), when in fact, he had histoplasmosis, a treatable disease. The basis of the malpractice claim is that...

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