Evans v. Bernhard

OPINION

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

This appeal raises the question of the-liability of a general medical practitioner for his own alleged negligence as well as for the alleged negligence of a medical specialist in operating on a patient and during subsequent post-operative care. It also raises the propriety of the granting of summary judgment for the hospital where the surgery was performed.

The appellant, Sharon J. Evans, was injured in a motorcycle mishap on June 5, 1966. An ambulance took her to Scottsdale Physicians & Surgeons Hospital. Her family physician, appellee Dr. J. J. Bern-hard, was…