Legal Opinion
Ricks v. Jefferson Parish Hospital Service District 2
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided November 26, 2002No. 02-CA-720Published
1Opinion of the Court
LSUSAN M. CHEHARDY, Judge.
In this medical malpractice action, after trial, the jury found that the doctor did not *1092breach the applicable standard of care in his medical treatment of plaintiffs’ son, Benjamin Ricks. For the following reasons, we affirm.
Facts
On July 20, 1991, Benjamin Ricks, a healthy 16-year-old boy, suffered a gunshot wound to his left chest. He was admitted to East Jefferson General Hospital(“EJGH”), where Dr. Stephan Harkness, a general surgeon, performed emergency surgery to repair damage caused by the bullet to Benjamin’s stomach and pancreas. Benjamin tolerated the…
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