Cash v. Kim

Goolsby, Judge:

This is a medical malpractice case. Ronald H. Kim, M.D., and T. Keith Wood, M.D., appeal from a jury verdict in favor of the respondent Dorothy Neal Cash. The jury awarded Mrs. Cash actual damages. It also assessed punitive damages against each physician. The questions on appeal relate to the sufficiency of the evidence as to proximate cause and as to punitive damages. 1

In October, 1980, Mrs. Cash began experiencing numbness in her right arm. Her family physician referred her to Dr. Marcelino Chavez, a neurosurgeon. He recommended neck surgery.

Mrs. Cash thereafter entered the…