Hawk v. Chattanooga Orthopaedic Group, P.C.

OPINION

in which GODDARD, P.J., and FRANKS, J., joined.

This is a medical malpractice case. We granted the plaintiffs’ Tenn.R.App.P. 9 application for an interlocutory appeal in order to review an order of the trial court dismissing the amendments to the plaintiffs’ original complaint and granting the defendants’ motion in limine pertaining to evidence of a disabling hand condition of the defendant surgeon, Dr. David M. O’Neal. We reverse.

I

On February 16, 1994, the defendant, Dr. David M. O’Neal, an orthopaedic surgeon, operated on the plaintiff Willard Hawk, Jr., performing a total hip…