Brackett v. Coleman

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the defendant in a wrongful death action in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant had committed medical malpractice that caused the death of her husband. We affirm.

Deborah L. Brackett, Jesse Brackett's widow and the administratrix of his estate, sued Jack T. Coleman, M.D., for his failure to diagnose and treat renal failure and diabetic ketoacidosis when he saw her husband in his office on February 15, 1984. Mrs. Brackett contends that this failure caused Jesse Brackett to experience respiratory and cardiac…