Routh v. St. John's Mercy Medical Center

SMITH, Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from a jury verdict and judgment against them in a case based upon medical malpractice. We reverse and remand.

Plaintiff husband was hospitalized and operated on for spondylolisthesis, a congenital condition in which one vertebra slips over an adjoining vertebra resulting in pain. This condition existed at plaintiff’s 5th lumbar and first sacral vertebrae. The operation was performed by two surgeons, Dr. Jacob, a neurosurgeon and Dr. Luther, *746an orthopedist. Dr. Jacob performed a laminectomy, removal of the fifth lumbar disc, and Dr. Luther performed a fusion…