CHATHAM COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY v. Ross

Sognier, Judge.

Herbert Charles Ross brought a medical malpractice action against Dr. Herman Delaney and the Chatham County Hospital Authority, d/b/a Memorial Medical Center, alleging that an instrument had been left in his abdomen during a surgical procedure. While granting partial summary judgment in favor of the hospital on another issue, the trial court denied partial summary judgment to the hospital on the issue of its liability to Ross under the “borrowed servant” doctrine. We granted the hospital’s application for interlocutory appeal of that ruling.

The record reveals that assisting Dr.…