Foley v. St. Thomas Hospital

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

This appeal is by plamtif&hppellant Cindy Foley 1 from the trial court’s grant of defendants/appellees’, St. Thomas Hospital, William A. Shell, Jr., M.D., and the Lipscomb Clinic, Motion for Summary Judgment and resulting dismissal of her complaint. This case arose when plaintiffs husband, Donald Foley, died unexpectedly some twenty-two hours following elective hip replacement surgery.

On 12 September 1991 Dr. Shell performed hip replacement surgery at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville on Donald Foley, who was thirty-five years old. While still a patient at St. Thomas…