Davison v. Mobile Infirmary

This is a complex medical malpractice case in which the trial judge directed a verdict in favor of one Defendant (Mobile Infirmary), and the jury returned a verdict in favor of the remaining Defendant (Dr. Richard H. Esham). Plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Davison, claiming professional misconduct (negligence and wantonness), contend that Mrs. Davison, while hospitalized at Mobile Infirmary, was permanently blinded as the result of an excessive accumulation of coated aspirin (Ecotrin), which, after amassing in her stomach, passed at once into her small intestine, causing salicylate poisoning.

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