Cartwright v. Bartholomew

(After stating the foregoing facts.) It is apparent from the defendant’s testimony that the original agreement between the parties, made at the time he went to the clinic with his wife and agreed to pay a total of $190, was an agreement in general terms that the wife would receive prenatal, delivery, and postnatal care, that drugs would be used to lighten her pain, and that the doctors would rotate so that one not overtired from long work would be on call at all times. The instruction that drugs would be administered when the pains reached three-minute intervals was not expressly contemplated…