Shekhawat v. Jones

HUNSTEIN, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether physicians employed as faculty members at the Medical College of Georgia (“MCG”) were entitled to official immunity in treating a patient at MCG’s Children’s Medical Center. Appellees Kenneth Jones and Clara Ramon, individually and as parents and next friends of their minor son, (“Plaintiffs”) filed a medical malpractice action against Appellants Prem Singh Shekhawat, M.D. and Wayne Mathews, M.D., along with other defendants, arising from treatment rendered to Plaintiffs’ child at the Children’s Medical Center in…