Legal Opinion
McDaniel v. Pickens
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 12, 1998No. 96-P-1602PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
This medical malpractice action was initially against both Dr. Robert B. Shepherd and Dr. Samuel Pickens, defendants.
On April 19, 1989, Gail McDaniel, plaintiff, went to the Barre Family Health Center at Barre (a department of Holden Hospital) where she was seen by Dr. Shepherd, a resident in the tenth month of his first year of residency.1 The plaintiff was suffering from pains in her groin. She also pointed to a “pea-sized lump” on the left side of her neck. On finding such a “prominence” in the large neck muscle, Dr. Shepherd consulted with Dr. Pickens (associate medical director of the…
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