Gunn v. Grossman

HESTER, J.:

¶ 1 David M. Rodgers, M.D., Chestnut Hill Cardiology Consultants, Ltd., and Lawrence L. Livornese, M.D., appeal from the $2,798,924 judgment entered against them after a jury determined that they were liable for medical malpractice. We affirm.

¶ 2 The trial court has aptly summarized the facts as follows.

Plaintiffs decedent, Deborah Gunn, was a 33 year old who had a prior heart condition necessitating the implantation of a prosthetic heart valve some years before this incident. She had been treated for a number of years by the defendant, David M. Rodgers, her cardiologist. On the…