Hagood v. O'CONNER

The plaintiff filed a medical malpractice action against a hospital and numerous physicians, charging that their negligent medical treatment was the proximate cause of his wife’s death. The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint on grounds .that the medical report and affidavit were insufficient. The trial court dismissed the complaint with prejudice and denied the plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration of that order. The plaintiff filed the instant appeal. We reverse.

Amaryaless Hagood was hospitalized May 16, 1984, for coronary bypass surgery. She subsequently developed infectious…