HAMILTON v. SHUMPERT

No. A09A0223.

682 S.E.2d 159 (2009)

HAMILTON et al. v. SHUMPERT et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

July 15, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, David W. Davenport, Atlanta, John W. Crongeyer, Robert K. Finnell, Rome, for appellants.

Carlock, Copeland & Stair, Thomas S. Carlock, Eric J. Frisch, Atlanta, Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis, Robert L. Berry, Jr., Stephen B. Moseley, Rome, for appellees.


PHIPPS, Judge.

Within days of being seen by a hospital's emergency room physician and her own primary care physician for chest pain and related symptoms, Myra Hamilton suffered heart failure, loss of her kidneys, and other severe complications. She and her husband filed a medical malpractice suit. They named as defendants: Paul K. Shumpert, M.D., the emergency room doctor who treated her; NW Georgia Emergency Medical Associates, P.C., the company for which he worked...

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