Legal Opinion
Tucker v. Community Medical Center
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 19, 2003PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPopovich, J.
¶ 1 William Tucker (Husband) and Helen Tucker (Wife) appeal the judgment entered on July 26, 2002, in favor of Community Medical Center (CMC) and Saadeddine Hijazi, M.D. (Hijazi). Upon review, we affirm.
¶ 2 The relevant facts are set forth fully in the trial court’s Memorandum of July 25,2002:
On November 1, 1995, [Husband] was admitted to [CMC] to undergo an exploratory laparotomy by [Hijazi] due to [Husband’s] persistent lower abdominal pain. Once [Husband] had been anesthetized, the CMC scrub nurse, Erica Schuback, provided a # 16 French Foley catheter to the circulating nurse, Dorothy…
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