Greene v. Thomas

BERMAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Ronald K. Greene, appeals from a judgment dismissing his medical malpractice claims against defendant, Donn D. Thomas, at the end of plaintiff’s case because of a failure to present admissible testimony on standards of care and because of his inability to prove the elements of common law fraud. We affirm.

The plaintiff was first treated in 1975 by defendant, a plastic surgeon, for a growth on his scalp. Defendant surgically removed the growth and sent it to a pathologist for tissue analysis, where the growth was diagnosed as an incompletely excised neurofib-roma.…