Katharine Baerman v. John Alfred Reisinger, M.D.

BURGER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal following a directed verdict for the Defendant in a medical malpractice case. The gist of Plaintiff’s claim was that Defendant, a cardiologist, had been negligent in failing to diagnose hypothyroidism for a period of six years when she allegedly suffered therefrom and in not referring her to another physician for diagnosis. Appellee argues in support of the District Court action that Appellant failed to produce any evidence of the standard of practice for like practitioners at the time Appellant was under Appellee’s care.

The record reveals that…