Legal Opinion
Hrynkiw v. Trammell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided May 11, 2012No. 1101099PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOLIN, Justice.
Dr. Zenko J. Hrynkiw and Zenko J. Hrynkiw, M.D., P.C., appeal from a judgment entered in favor of Thomas Tram-mell and Barbara Trammell in their medical-malpractice action.
Facts and Procedural History
On July 15, 2005, Dr. Hrynkiw, a neurosurgeon, performed fusion surgery on Thomas’s spine to relieve pain in his lower back and pain and numbness in his right leg and foot caused by a herniated disk that was creating pressure on a nerve. Immediately following the surgery, Thomas experienced weakness, numbness, and pain in his lower extremities, along with numbness in his perineal…
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