McCormick v. Avret

Smith, Judge.

Appellant brought a medical malpractice action alleging that appellee, Dr. Edwin T. Avret, damaged the radial nerve of appellant’s right wrist by failing to exercise due care in keeping sterile a needle used to draw a blood sample. Appellant asserts that the trial court erred in refusing to qualify as an expert witness a licensed nurse who "has drawn blood and given injections in numbers exceeding two thousand, and perhaps double that amount” and in granting appellee’s motion for directed verdict. We reverse.

1. Appellant bases her right to recovery on the theory that appellee’s…