Medlin v. Crosby

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant "health care provider" entered by the trial court because the plaintiff failed to provide an expert witness who was a "similarly situated health care provider," as defined in §6-5-548, Ala. Code 1975, to establish the standard of care alleged to have been breached.

On the morning of March 22, 1989, Alice Bell Shoffeitt was taken to the emergency room at East Alabama Medical Center (hereinafter "EAMC"), complaining of nausea, vomiting, and pain in her chest and arms. Dr. J. Dell Crosby, the physician in attendance in the emergency…