Beauchamp v. Wallace

Benham, Judge.

These are appeals from the grant of summary judgment to the defendant-doctors in a medical malpractice action. Each of the doctors filed a motion for summary judgment supported by his own affidavit. Each doctor’s affidavit stated, in essence, that in his expert opinion the medical care and treatment by him equaled or exceeded that degree of care and skill exercised by the medical profession generally under similar conditions and like circumstances, and that no act or omission on his part caused or contributed in causing, either directly or proximately, the death of his patient.…