Gala v. Hamilton

OPINION

NEWMAN, Justice.

We granted allocatur in this matter to address the issue of whether a defendant must present medical literature to justify a “two schools of thought” instruction.

In March of 1988, Hiren S. Gala (Appellant) underwent surgery for removal of a schwannoma, a benign tumor on a nerve in his neck. His wife, who is a pathologist, first noticed the lump on her husband’s neck in December 1987. Ralph Hamilton, M.D., a plastic surgeon, and Michael O’Connor, M.D. a neurosurgeon, (Appellees), performed the operation. Prior to the surgery, Appellees did not know which nerve was…