Yeager v. Riverside Methodist Hospital

Plaintiffs appeal the judgment of the trial court in favor of defendant, Dr. William B. Merryman, in plaintiffs’ medical malpractice action. They advance two assignments of error:

“1. The trial court erred to the substantial prejudice of plaintiffs in charging the jury that in determining whether Dr. Merryman was medically negligent, they should consider his ‘judgment.’

“2. The trial court erred to the substantial prejudice of plaintiffs in permitting the introduction into evidence of defendant’s Exhibits C and D consisting of textbook examples of severe late deceleration patterns on a fetal…