Glen R. Hemingway v. Ochsner Clinic And/or Ochsner Foundation Hospital

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

The appellant here challenges the correctness of the trial court’s order directing a verdict for the appellees, several doctors, the hospital and clinic with which they were associated and their respective insurance carriers. The trial court based its decision on the failure of the plaintiff to produce evidence “as to the standard of care generally practiced by other physicians in this community or in the community in which these defendant physicians practice in similar situations,” and on the further ground that “there has been no evidence offered by the plaintiff…