Ford v. Stringfellow Memorial Hospital

THOMPSON, Presiding Judge.

This is a medical-malpractice case. Deborah Ford, the plaintiff, appeals from summary judgments entered by the Calhoun Circuit Court in favor of Stringfellow Memorial Hospital (“the hospital”), Dr. Willie Stokes, and Millennium Health Clinic, P.C. (“Millennium”). For the reasons stated herein, we reverse those judgments.

Considered in the light appropriate to our review of the trial court’s summary judgments, the record reveals the following pertinent facts. On September 30, 2005, Ford was admitted to the hospital for a surgery to remove a cyst from her right wrist.…