Steinmeyer v. Baptist Memorial Hospital

PRITCHARD, Judge.

Plaintiff, Marlin Steinmeyer, filed suit against the various defendants alleging medical negligence, basically, in failing properly to diagnose and treat injuries to his cervical spine and spinal cord occasioned in a vehicular accident prior to the time he was admitted to Baptist Memorial Hospital on May 5, 1976, as an emergency patient, he then being in a comatose situation and a then apparent quadriplegic. Except for residuals, plaintiff recovered the use of his extremities by the time he was discharged 15 days after he was hospitalized. The verdict of the jury was for…