Stevenson v. Nauton

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, Ralph Nauton, M.D. The action was instituted by the plaintiff, Rachel W. Stevenson, for damages occasioned by the alleged negligence of the defendant in failing to diagnose and treat a suspected case of temporal arteritis. The defendant’s motion for summary judgment was granted by the trial court on the basis of the plaintiffs failure to make out a prima facie case as to the acceptable standard of care against which the defendant physician was to be measured. We affirm.

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