Craft v. Wilcox

Pope, Judge.

Plaintiff Milton Craft, Jr. appeals from the grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant physician Robert Wilcox, M.D. in this medical malpractice action.

In June of 1981 Craft was hospitalized for hemorrhoid surgery, and while there his treating physician called in Dr. Wilcox for a consultation concerning some additional urological problems Craft was experiencing. Dr. Wilcox, a urologist, examined Craft on June 2 and 3, 1981, ordered several tests to be performed and prescribed some medication to treat his initial diagnosis of recurring subacute prostatitis. *373Craft was…