Sampson v. WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM

OPINION

CHARLES D. SUSANO, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court, in which

HERSCHEL P. FRANKS, P.J., and SHARON G. LEE, J., joined.

This is a medical malpractice case. Shelley Marlene Sampson (“the plaintiff’) 1 and her husband, Edward V. Sampson, sued the defendants, Wellmont Health System (“Wellmont”), doing business as Holston Valley Medical Center, and Elizabeth Perry, R.N. (“Nurse Perry”), alleging that the plaintiffs suffered damages as a result of Nurse Perry’s failure to promptly check and empty the plaintiffs catheter bag during her postoperative stay at Hol-ston Valley Medical…