Rogers v. City of Boston

The plaintiffs son Dwayne Rogers was taken to Boston City Hospital with multiple stab wounds in 1984, when he was eighteen years old. In the emergency surgery that followed, he suffered cardiac arrest, was resuscitated, but had lapsed into a comatose state which lasted until his death in 1988. This action was commenced in 1987, alleging malpractice against the hospital, several anesthesiologists, and a surgeon. The plaintiffs offer of proof, prepared for the medical malpractice tribunal, G. L. c. 231, § 60B, consisted of the complaint, hospital records, an affidavit of the plaintiff, and a…