Chapa v. St Mary's Hospital

This is a medical malpractice case. Salome Delgado was admitted to defendant hospital after a fall. Although Mr. Delgado initially was treated by a physician provided by the hospital, the family doctor was later called in and became the attending physician. The alleged acts of malpractice occurred thereafter. A jury empaneled to try issues of liability specially found that Mr. Delgado’s family, and not the hospital, engaged the family doctor. Plaintiff, conservator of Mr. Delgado’s estate, appeals as of right from the trial court’s October 2, 1989, "order of dismissal” entered after the jury…