Asbury v. Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital

BURR, J,

The defendants, Joel P. Lebed D.O. and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, have appealed from this court’s order denying their motion for post-trial relief The plaintiffs contended that the defendants had been medically negligent in removing subcutaneously implanted Norplant contraceptive rods from the left upper arm of the wife-plaintiff, Dana Asbury, in F ebruary of2003. The plaintiffs claimed that the wife-plaintiff’s median nerve had been injured through the defendants’ negligence and that she had developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), alternately, and more…