Hammonds v. Jewish Hospital of St. Louis

DOWD, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of Defendant, Diane Ma-grane, M.D., in a wrongful death/medical malpractice suit against a hospital and several physicians. We reverse and remand.

Plaintiff went to Jewish Hospital’s emergency room with ruptured membranes after her water broke and she began premature labor. Plaintiff was then approximately eight months pregnant. She advised Jewish Hospital she had previously delivered several babies by cesarean section and had been warned by a physician she would have complications with this birth as well.

Jewish Hospital wanted…