Crawford v. Fayez

MARTIN, Judge.

Plaintiffs assign error to the admission of testimony by defendant’s former patients and to the court’s instructions to the jury. We find no error in the trial below.

At trial, five of defendant’s former patients were permitted to testify, over plaintiffs’ objection, that defendant had informed them of Medrol’s possible side effects, including bone damage. The trial court admitted this testimony for the “limited purposes of showing routine practice of the defendant as it relates to information passed to these patients who were prescribed Medrol and any possible side effects…