Holland v. Stacy

BARNES, Justice:

On October 18th, Appellant, hereinafter referred to as “plaintiff”, was hospitalized in a hospital herein referred to as “M Hospital”, at the request of Appellee, an Oklahoma City orthopedic surgeon, hereinafter referred to as “defendant”, for treatment of two infected or gangrenous toes on his left foot. Thereafter, on October 24th, while still hospitalized there, plaintiff suddenly became totally blind. After other doctors were consulted, the cause of plaintiff’s blindness was diagnosed as a “retinal central arterial thrombosis.”

Thereafter, plaintiff instituted the present…