Cooper Clinic, P.A. v. Barnes

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

On June 8, 2000, Trenton McMillan, a three-year-old boy, was brought by his father, Ralph Lord, to Appellant Cooper Clinic, P.A. d/b/a Pro-Med Walk-in-Clinic, for treatment of a bump on his head. Lord claimed that another child had accidentally hit Trenton in the head with a golf club. Susan S. Staudt, D.O., a doctor of osteopathic medicine and an employee of Cooper Clinic, examined Trenton, noting that in addition to the large bump on the boy’s forehead, his body was covered in bruises and his teeth were chipped and decaying. Dr. Staudt assessed Trenton as…