Mitchell v. Kardesch

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Elizabeth Mitchell, along with her two minor children, 1 sued Dr. Milton Kardesch for medical malpractice, claiming that Dr. Kardesch deviated from the standard of care (1) in not appropriately evaluating, diagnosing and treating her husband, Ruben Mitchell, or referring him for treatment and (2) in not acting within the standard of care upon recording abnormalities in Mr. Mitchell’s thallium stress test. Because much of the case would turn on whether the jury believed her or Dr. Kar-desch’s recitation of events, Mrs. Mitchell requested permission to ask Dr. Kardesch…