Stitt v. Mahaney

Plaintiff appeals from a jury verdict in favor of all defendants on his medical malpractice cause of action.

Plaintiff was seriously injured in a motorcycle-car crash and taken in critical condition and great pain to the emergency room at the defendant city’s hospital. Defendant Dr. DeWitt, plaintiff’s family physician, met him at the hospital and ordered numerous X-rays. Dr. DeWitt summoned defendant Dr. Mahaney, an orthopedic surgeon, who assumed care of the patient, reviewed the X-rays, and, pursuant thereto, ordered traction of the right leg in treatment of an apparent fracture of the…