Dugger v. Danello

Beasley, Judge.

The patient appeals the grant of the defendant physician’s motion for a directed verdict, made at the close of plaintiffs evidence in a medical malpractice case. The sole enumeration of error is that the trial court erred in concluding that the patient had failed to introduce sufficient expert medical evidence to show that the physician deviated from the required standard of care.

1. The testimony of plaintiff’s expert, a general practitioner in Walhalla, South Carolina, was by agreement of the parties taken by deposition in lieu of his appearance at trial. The deposition was…