Legal Opinion

Graves v. Brookwood Health Services, Inc.

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 18, 2009No. 1071224PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MURDOCK, Justice.

Shelvia Graves appeals from a judgment in favor of Brookwood Health Services, Inc., d/b/a Brookwood Medical Center (“Brookwood”), on Graves’s claim alleging medical negligence against nurses at Brookwood. We reverse and remand.

7. Facts and Procedural History

On August 7, 2000, Graves was admitted to Brookwood’s Digestive Disease Center to undergo an upper and lower gastrointestinal exam (“GI exam”) as the result of problems she had been having related to ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory disease of the small intestine and colon. Graves had had several medical problems before…

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