Legal Opinion
Berkow v. Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses & Missionaries Conducting Sibley Memorial Hospital
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 5, 2004No. 02-CV-99, 02-CV-174PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERREN, Senior Judge:
In this medical malpractice suit for damages resulting from a cancer misdiagnosis, plaintiff Edward D. Berkow appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendant-appellees, Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries Conducting Sib-ley Memorial Hospital (“Sibley”), Margaret M. Shaffer, M.D., Thomas A. Fleury, M.D., R. Scott Klappenbaeh, M.D., Gary P. Fisher, M,D., and Fisher & Kanovsky, P.C. The trial court granted Sibley’s and Dr. Fleury’s motions after concluding that Berkow had failed to state a prima facie case. The…
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