County of Clark Ex Rel. University Medical Center v. Upchurch

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By the Court, Wagner, D. J.:

On July 9, 1990, respondent Martha Imelda Upchurch (“Mrs. Upchurch”), age twenty-nine, gave birth to a daughter, respondent Kimberly Upchurch (“Kimberly”), at the hospital of appellant University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (“UMC”) in Las Vegas. Kimberly was born with cerebral palsy.

Donald Roberts, M.D., and Edward Spoon, M.D., two obstetric-gynecology residents employed by the State of Nevada and the University of Nevada-Reno (“UNR”) School of Medicine, were the attending physicians throughout the labor and delivery. Mrs. Upchurch and her husband,…