Masters v. Khuri

The plaintiff, suffering an acute asthma attack, called 911 on June 13, 1995 and was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at MetroWest Medical Center in Natick. He arrived at approximately 10:53 (some evidence indicates 10:56) p.m. The defendant, Dr. Fadlo Raja Khuri, was the physician in charge. The plaintiff was intubated, but immediately went into respiratory arrest and into electromechanical dissociation *468(EMD), a form of circulatory arrest.1 Because of severe brain damage the plaintiff, a former active chiropractor, became at age thirty-seven unable to perform the activities of daily…