Solomon v. Hall

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

The trial court granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment in this malpractice suit, and plaintiffs have appealed. The pertinent facts are as follows:

Because she experienced a painful discharge from her right breast, Plaintiff Del-ma Ruth Solomon visited her family physician. Her family physician referred her to Dr. Jules Trudel of Smithville, Tennessee. Dr. Trudel did a biopsy on plaintiff’s breast by performing a partial mastectomy. He removed approximately one-fourth of the tissue from plaintiff’s right breast.

Dr. Trudel sent the breast tissue to defendants R.…