Lair v. Lancourt

KENNEDY, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered upon an adverse jury verdict in her claim against defendant orthopedic physician for medical malpractice. We affirm.

Defendant performed a surgical operation upon the plaintiff to reunite a longstanding nonunion of the femur of her left leg. The operation was successful, but in the course of it plaintiff developed pressure-caused necrotic ulcers on her labial tissue in her perineum. Plaintiff claims the ulcers were caused by defendant’s negligence in performing the operation.

The procedure for the surgery was to place the anesthetized…