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DIRECTORS OF GEORGETOWN COLLEGE v. WHEELER

Nos. 12-CV-671, 12-CV-672.

75 A.3d 280 (2013)

PRESIDENT and DIRECTORS OF GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, et al., Appellants, v. Crystal WHEELER, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 19, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Gleason, Jr. , with whom Joanna Jesperson , Washington, DC, was on the brief, for appellants, President and Directors of Georgetown College.

Steven A. Hamilton , with whom Karen S. Karlin and Matthew D. Banks , Bethesda, MD, were on the brief for appellant, Dr. Marilyn McPherson-Corder.

Melissa Rhea , with whom Sandra H. Robinson , Harlow R. Case , and Jack H. Olender , Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, BLACKBURNE-RISGBY, Associate Judge, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

BELSON, Senior Judge:

This is an appeal by a hospital and a physician from a large judgment against them in a medical malpractice case. Appellee Crystal Wheeler suffered various medical complications as the result of a Rathke's cleft cyst behind her left eye, which went undetected for nearly ten years despite its appearance on a 1996 MRI report. Wheeler brought a medical-malpractice suit against the appellants, Marilyn McPherson-Corder, M.D., and the President and...

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