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CASE ON POINT: Sacks v. Necaise, 2007 MSCA 2006-CA-01068 (12/11/07) So.2d--MS
ISSUE: Ordinarily, patients suing physicians and/or hospitals for medical malpractice must have physicians as medical experts to testify on their behalf. In this case the alleged malpractice involved the doctrine of Respondeat Superior. Simply put, should physicians and their practice groups be liable for the failure of registered nurses employed by them and their practice groups be liable for the continued infusion of potent drugs into patients' arms, which have become swollen from two to three times normal size, turned color, and have been the source of pain to patients?
CASE FACTS: Charles Freeman was diagnosed with lung cancer in early 1998. Freeman, also suffered from diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, atherosclerotic vascular disease, and mild organic brain syndrome. He began chemotherapy treatment by intravenous therapy on January 22, 1998, at the Medical...
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