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HARTEL v. PRUETT

No. 2007-CA-00173-SCT.

998 So.2d 979 (2008)

Betty G. HARTEL and Husband, Waldo Hartel v. Jack B. PRUETT, M.D., Spectrum Emergency Care, Inc. d/b/a Sec/Em Care and Biloxi Regional Medical Center a/k/a Biloxi HMA, Inc.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Dismissed January 29, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Christopher Breard, attorney for appellants.

Mark P. Caraway, L. Clark Hicks, Jr., Lynda Clower Carter, attorneys for appellees.

EN BANC.

RANDOLPH, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. This case arises from a claim of medical malpractice against Dr. Jack B. Pruett, an emergency room physician who purportedly failed to prescribe the proper antibiotics to patient Betty G. Hartel. After all parties rested, the Circuit Court of Harrison County, Mississippi, granted a directed verdict for Spectrum Emergency Care, Inc. ("EM Care"). The jury subsequently returned a verdict in favor of Dr. Pruett and Biloxi Regional...

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