Beard v. St. Vincent Charity Hosp.

MELODY J. STEWART, J.:

{¶ 1} When plaintiff-appellant Michael Scott Beard could not be intubated for general anesthesia preparatory to undergoing bariatric surgery at St. Vincent Charity Hospital, he consulted with defendant-appellee Harvey Tucker, M.D., an otolaryngologist (ear, nose and throat doctor) at MetroHealth Medical Center. Tucker thought that he could successfully intubate Beard for surgery, but in a subsequent bariatric surgery, his attempts to do so failed, causing Tucker to perform a tracheostomy. There were post-surgery complications with the tracheostomy, causing it to become…