Swanson Ex Rel. Swanson v. Chatterton

Peterson, Justice.

Plaintiff, a minor, by his father and natural guardian, sued three defendants for medical malpractice: Dr. Carl C. Chatterton, an orthopedic surgeon; Dr. Samuel M. Loken, a physician in general practice; and the Board of Social Ministry of Minnesota Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, owner and operator of Bethesda Lutheran Hospital, St. Paul (hereinafter “Bethesda”). The claim of malpractice arises out of the operative and postoperative treatment of the injured minor who, subsequent to the reduction of a supracondylar fracture of his arm, suffered a serious deformity…