Legal Opinion
Perkins v. Windsor Hospital Corp.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided December 1, 1982No. 387-80PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBarney, C.J.
This is a medical malpractice action. In the fall of 1976, plaintiff Dorothy Perkins underwent an elective cholecystectomy at Mt. Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, Vermont. Prior to her release the defendant physician issued plaintiff a prescription for the drug Flagyl.1 The drug was prescribed in an effort to discover the cause of atypical cells, disclosed in plaintiff’s routine pap smear test.
Plaintiff filled the prescription at the defendant pharmacy in Windsor, Vermont. Some time later, according to plaintiff’s testimony, she ingested the initial prescribed dosage of Flagyl and suffered…
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