Diggs v. Arizona Cardiologists, Ltd.

OPINION

TOCI, Judge.

¶ 1 After conferring with cardiologist, Dr. Rubin S. Valdez, the St. Luke’s Medical Center emergency room physician, Dr. Paul Johnson, treated Cynthia Diggs’ severe chest pain and released her. Three hours later, she died of a heart attack. Her husband, Vainus Diggs, Sr., her children, and her parents filed a medical malpractice suit against, among others, Dr. Valdez, Arizona Cardiologists, Ltd., and Arizona Cardiology Group, P.C. (“the Valdez defendants”). The trial court granted summary judgment to the Valdez defendants reasoning that, without an express or implied…