Hutcheson v. McGoogan

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

This case involves a medical malpractice action brought against a medical doctor. The negligent act was the performance of a hemorrhoidectomy causing alleged damages and injuries based upon the failure of said defendant doctor to exercise that degree of care and skill exercised by the medical profession generally. The main contention of the plaintiff is that, as a patient of the defendant, he was admitted to the hospital for the purpose of having surgery performed on a cyst located on the left side of the scrotum. But while he was in the hospital the defendant also…