Miller v. Hands

Deen, Presiding Judge.

In May 1984 appellee Hands went to Crawford W. Long Hospital for diagnosis of certain symptoms which she feared might indicate, inter alia, a heart attack. After undergoing a battery of tests, she was wheeled on a stretcher to the X-ray room. The nurse on duty, appellant Miller, requested that she leave the stretcher and stand in front of the X-ray machine. She did so but, while standing there, collapsed and fell to the tile floor, injuring her elbow and other parts of her body in the fall. She alleges that Miller was negligent in making her leave the stretcher unaided —…