Waites v. UNIV. OF ALA. HEALTH SERV. FOUND.

The plaintiff, William Waites, sued The University of Alabama Health Services Foundation; Griffith R. Harsh III, M.D.; Richard Naftalis, M.D.; and Mark J. Cuffe, M.D., alleging medical malpractice in the defendants' care and treatment of the plaintiff.1 The trial court entered a summary judgment in favor of the defendants, and Waites appeals. We affirm.

In July 1990, William Waites came to the neurological service of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospitals, complaining of weakness in his hands and what came to be diagnosed as paresthesia2 in his upper extremities and hands. A CT…