Dible v. Vagley

MONTEMURO, Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in favor of appellees/defendants below in a medical malpractice action.1

In October of 1979, appellant Wesley Dible was referred to appellee Richard T. Vagley, M.D., a plastic surgeon, for examination and treatment of a lump behind his left ear. In November, the lump was excised, submitted to appellee Kusum Sharma, M.D., a pathologist, for diagnosis, and a skin graft was applied to the area. The laboratory report returned by appellee Sharma characterized the lump as squamous cell carcinoma, and noted that the margins of the surgical…