Osborne ex rel. Williams v. Annie Penn Memorial Hospital, Inc.

ORR, Judge.

This case was initiated by Helen 0. Williams, guardian of Angel Osborne, a minor. The evidence tended to show that on 10 February 1978, Linda Faye Osborne was admitted to Annie Penn Memorial Hospital for delivery of a baby. Despite the fact that she was in active labor, Ms. Osborne was provided with a sandwich by a hospital nurse, sometime after her admission.

*97When plaintiff’s mother was ready to give birth, she was taken to a preoperative examination room where defendant nurse Robertson administered a general anesthetic agent to her without an anesthesiologist or a doctor being…