Samuel v. Baton Rouge General Medical Center

This appeal challenges a trial court’s finding that a doctor committed malpractice by giving his patient inadequate discharge instructions. Finding this determination to be neither manifestly erroneous nor clearly wrong, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

This malpractice litigation stems from the treatment of Alfred Samuel by Dr. Terry Jones, a vascular surgeon. At the time, Mr. Samuel had end stage renal disease, or chronic kidney failure, which required continual dialysis treatment. He also suffered from hypertension which made his heart three times the normal size.

In order to…