Wells v. Lurate

11 WILLIAMS, Judge.

In this medical malpractice action, the plaintiffs, Marvin and Annette Wells, appeal an adverse judgment following a jury trial, rendered in favor of the defendant, Dr. Robert Lurate, finding that he was not negligent in his medical treatment of the plaintiffs’ infant son. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS

The plaintiffs, Marvin and Annette Wells, were the parents of Marvin Wells, Jr., a fourteen-month-old sickle cell anemia patient. As a part of the child’s treatment for the disease, his mother gave him two daily doses of penicillin as prescribed. On the afternoon…