Pendarvis v. Pennington

This is an appeal from a judgment based on a directed verdict in a medical malpractice case.

The decedent checked into the Mobile Infirmary at 4:15 p.m., on July 5, 1981, for a voluntary heart catheterization, a diagnostic procedure to determine the extent of damage to the blood vessels of the heart resulting from a previous heart attack. The record reveals that the decedent was having chest pains when he checked into the hospital and that he was taking nitroglycerin tablets for that pain. He was examined by Dr. Jerry Jordan, who was to perform the catheterization. Dr. Jordan thereafter called…