Harris v. Griffin

Barnes, Judge.

Vivian Harris appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to Alvin Griffin, M.D., arguing that the trial court erred in concluding that she had no doctor-patient relationship with him. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the trial court’s ruling.

Harris sued Griffin, two other doctors, and a hospital, contending that they committed medical malpractice when they failed to diagnose her herniated thoracic disk, which led to permanent neurological motor deficits. Harris testified that she began having terrible back pain in November 1999. On December 6, 1999, she saw one…