Crites v. Pietila

OPINION

WOODARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the physician defendants. We reverse and remand.

Jill Crites was involved in an automobile accident in May of 1988. She was approximately eight months’ pregnant at the time.

She was treated at an Odessa hospital by the emergency physician, Dr. Oliver Loyd. Her ankle was placed in a splint, her head was x-rayed and her gashed knee was examined. While at the hospital, she told Nurse Outright that the baby was not moving. Through a monitor, the baby’s heartbeat was heard. Mrs. Crites had been under the pregnancy care of…