Watson v. Medical Emergency Services, Corp.

SULLIVAN, Judge.

Geraldine Watson appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of defendants.

We affirm.

Geraldine's medical malpractice complaint asserts negligent failure to diagnose and treat her husband's lung cancer. The operative facts are undisputed. In August of 1979 and in January of 1980, James Watson consulted the emergency room of Methodist Hospital complaining of cold symptoms. In January, the attending emergency resident, Mary Bush, took x- rays of James' chest but neither she nor her supervising physician, Dr. W. Larry Corbett, nor radiologists Dr. Keller and Dr. Pratt diagnosed…