Gallagher v. Marguglio

POPOVICH, Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Clarion County after a jury found that appellee was negligent for failing to diagnose appellant’s rectal cancer but did not award any damages to the appellant. We affirm.1

Appellant was appellee’s patient from April of 1985 until October of 1986. During that period, appellant complained of loss of weight, loss of appetite, diarrhea, hemorrhoids and blood in her stool. Another doctor subsequently diagnosed appellant as having cancer of the rectum in January of 1987. Appellant brought a cause of action…