McDougal v. Weed

JACKSON, Judge:

Plaintiff, Vaughan L. MeDougal, appeals the district court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of Thomas S. Weed. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

On December 11, 1991, MeDougal was injured in a skiing accident. He went to the Cottonwood Hospital Emergency Room (emergency room) where an emergency room doctor treated him for a dislocated shoulder.

On February 5, 1992, Dr. Thomas Hawkes operated on McDougal’s affected shoulder. At or before this time, Hawkes told MeDou-gal that the treatment .he received at the emergency room may have been inappropriate and had possibly resulted in…