Martin v. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital

In this action for negligence in drawing blood for laboratory testing, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Superior Court (Hollman, J.) granting the defendant’s motion for nonsuit at the close of the plaintiff’s case. We affirm.

In February, 1982, a lay technician known as a phlebotomist, employed by the defendant, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, drew a sample of blood from the right arm of the plaintiff, Patricia A. Martin. In the course of the venipuncture procedure the *135plaintiff suffered an injury to her arm’s lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve, for which she seeks…