Rayner v. John Buist Chester Hospital

OPINION

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a take-nothing judgment in a medical malpractice suit against defendants’ hospital and medical doctor.

Plaintiff sued defendants for personal injuries sustained by him when a great amount of blood flowed into his scrotum when the diatube was inserted into his groin during a routine catheterization test. Plaintiff plead seven specific acts of negligence on the part of the defendants, and then in paragraph VII plead in the alternative “he does not know the exact cause of said accident, the blood flowing into the scrotum, but that…