Legal Opinion
Coleman v. Meritt
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided May 22, 2009No. SD 28678, SD 28680PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DANIEL E. SCOTT, Presiding Judge.
Ruth Lacey had abdomen pain on a Friday morning in 2002. Early that afternoon she saw Dr. James Meritt, who sent her to the hospital in Dexter for a CT scan, after which she went home.
The hospital electronically transmitted Ms. Lacey’s CT scan images 1 to Dr. W.J. Stoecker, a Cape Girardeau radiologist who looked for, but saw no free intraperi-toneal air which would have indicated a surgical emergency.
The next day, Ms. Lacey was still in pain and had not heard back from any doctor. Unable to reach Dr. Meritt on a Saturday, she and her husband went to the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- State v. ShockleyMissouri Court of Appeals · 2003
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