Boyd v. Chakraborty

The plaintiff-appellant, Velma Boyd, brought this medical malpractice action against the defendants-appellees, Drs. Anup K. Chakraborty and Giles S. Hedderich, alleging negligence in their treatment of Boyd, including their alleged failure to inspect a catheter upon its removal from Boyd’s chest and failure to remove a fragment of this catheter from Boyd’s body after surgery. Because no expert testimony was presented by Boyd as to the standard of care in this case, the district court granted the appellees’ motion for summary judgment. Boyd appeals.

Boyd assigns two errors: (1) The district…