Martin v. Wilder

ALMON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the defendant in a medical malpractice case. We affirm.

The essence of the complaint is that Dr. Wilder failed to perform certain diagnostic procedures which would have revealed an “ulcerated mass in the medial wall of the cecum just near the orifice to the appendix,” which was later removed surgically by another doctor.

Dr. Wilder, who limits his practice to general surgery, states the following in his affidavit:

“I first saw the plaintiff Warren Lee Martin as a patient on March 3, 1982 at my office in Decatur, Alabama. This…