Katherine Chaffins and Roger Chaffins Sr. v. Clint Kauffman, M.D. Family and Women's Health Services and Pulaski County Memorial Hospital

OPINION

BRADFORD, Judge.

CASE SUMMARY

Appellants-Plaintiffs Katherine Chaffins and Roger Chaffins, Sr., appeal the grant of summary judgment in favor of Dr. Clint Kauffman; his practice, Family and Women’s Health Services (“the Practice”); and Pulaski County Memorial Hospital (“the Hospital”). Dr. Kauffman performed a routine colonoscopy on Katherine, immediately after which Katherine complained to the Hospital nursing staff of intense abdominal pain. The nursing staff did not report Katherine’s complaint, and Dr. Kauffman made no inquiry into the source of her pain. After twenty-five minutes in…