Ramos v. Pyati

PRESIDING JUSTICE MURRAY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Prahlad Pyati, M.D., appeals from several rulings of the trial court in a medical malpractice suit filed by plaintiff, Carlos Ramos, in which he alleged that defendant performed surgery on his hand outside the scope of the surgery to which he had consented. Specifically, defendant contends that: (1) the trial court erred in denying his motion for a directed verdict because plaintiff failed to prove a prima facie case of medical malpractice; (2) the court erred in directing a verdict in favor of plaintiff based on its…